Ezra 8:18

Servants For The Temple Are Gathered

¹⁷ And to those gave I commandment unto Iddo, the chiefest at Casiphia; and I told them what they should say unto Iddo and his brethren the Nethinims at Casiphia: that they should cause the ministers of the house of our God to come unto us. ¹⁸ And through the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a wise man from among the children of Mahli the son of Levi the son of Israel, even Sherebiah, with his sons and brethren, eighteen; ¹⁹ And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the children of Merari, with his brethren and their sons, twenty;

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Man of Understanding

Wise Man

Man Of Discretion

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1 Chronicles 6:19

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the kindreds of Levi concerning their ancient fathers.

Ezra 7:28

and hath inclined his mercy unto me in the presence of the king, and his counselors, and before all the king's high estates. And I was comforted, according to the hand of the LORD my God over me, and so gathered I the heads of Israel together, that they might go up with me.

Numbers 3:20

And the sons of Merari in their kindreds were Mahli and Mushi. These are the kindreds of Levi in the houses of their fathers.

Ezra 7:6

This Ezra was a perfect scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel did give. And the king gave him all that he required, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

Ezra 8:16

Then sent I to Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, the rulers, and Joiarib and Elnathan, which were men of understanding.

Ezra 8:22

For I was ashamed to require of the king, soldiers and horsemen, to help us against the enemy in the way. For we had said unto the king, "The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness, and his violence and wrath is upon all them that forsake him."

Ezra 8:24

And I took out twelve of the chief priests, Sherebiah and Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

Nehemiah 2:8

And letters unto Asaph the lord of the king's wood, that he may give me wood for beams to the gates of the palace, which are hard on the house and hard on the walls of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into." And the king gave me according to the good hand of God upon me.

Nehemiah 8:7

And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to give heed unto the law, and the people stood in their place.

Nehemiah 9:4-5

And the Levites stood on high, namely Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenaniah, and cried loud unto the LORD their God.

Nehemiah 10:12

Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

Nehemiah 12:24

And these were the chief among the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, and their brethren over against them, to give praise and thanks, according as David the man of God had ordained it, one watch over against another.

Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways have respect unto him, and he shall order thy goings.

Proverbs 24:3

Through wisdom a house shall be builded, and with understanding it shall be set up.

Jeremiah 3:15

and I will give you herdsmen after mine own mind, which shall feed you with learning and wisdom.

Daniel 1:20

Therefore stood they before the king, which in all wisdom and matters of understanding that he enquired of them, found them ten times better than all the soothsayers and charmers that were in all his realm.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, be not children in wit. Howbeit, as concerning maliciousness be children: but in wit be perfect.