Ezra 8:17

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Summary

And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.

I told them

Jeremiah 15:19

The nethinims

Ezra 2:43

Ezra 7:7

Ministers

Bible References

I told them

You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach you what you are to do.

I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

then go to the king and speak to him in this manner.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.

Then the Lord stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me,
“Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

Therefore, thus says the Lord,
“If you return, then I will restore you—

Before Me you will stand;

And if you extract the precious from the worthless,
You will become My spokesman.
They for their part may turn to you,
But as for you, you must not turn to them.

The nethinims

The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,

Some of the sons of Israel and some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

Ministers

Then after that the Levites went in to perform their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons; just as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

Behold, I Myself have taken your fellow Levites from among the sons of Israel; they are a gift to you, dedicated to the Lord, to perform the service for the tent of meeting.

The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number by census of men was 38,000.

For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you,