Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Ezra 7
²⁷ Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,
²⁸ and has extended mercy to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes.So I was encouraged, as the hand of the Lord my God was upon me; and I gathered leading men of Israel to go up with me.
Ezra 8
¹ These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of King Artaxerxes:
² of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush;
³ of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and registered with him were one hundred and fifty males;
⁴ of the sons of Pahath-Moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males;
⁵ of the sons of Shechaniah, Ben-Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males;
⁶ of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males;
⁷ of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males;
⁸ of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him eighty males;
⁹ of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males;