Ezra 8:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

By the good hand

A man of understanding

1 Corinthians 14:20

Mahli

Numbers 3:20

1 Chronicles 6:19

Sherebiah

Nehemiah 12:24

Bible References

By the good hand

For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to defend us against the enemy in the way because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all those that seek him for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those that forsake him.

and has extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors and before all the king's mighty princes. And I, comforted according to the hand of the LORD my God upon me, gathered together the principals of Israel to go up with me.

and a letter unto Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace of the house and for the wall of the city and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of the LORD upon me.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

A man of understanding

Then I commissioned Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, principals, also Joiarib and Elnathan, men of understanding;

Through wisdom the house shall be built, and with intelligence it shall be established:

And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

And in all matters of wisdom and intelligence, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.

Brothers, be not children in understanding, howbeit in malice be ye children; but in understanding be perfect.

Mahli

And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their fathers.

The sons of Merari: Mahli, Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.

Sherebiah

Then I separated twelve of the principals of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

And Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah, Levites, caused the people to be silent that they might understand the law; and the people were in their place.

Then stood up upon the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.

Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

The heads of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua, the son of Kadmiel, and their brethren before them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the statute of David, the man of God, keeping each one their ward.