Ezr 8:15-19 | ESV | STEP | I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava , and there we camped three days . As I reviewed the people and the priests , I found there none of the sons of Levi .

‏ Ezra 8:15-19

Ezra Sends for Levites

15 I gathered them to the river that runs to ^aAhava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there ^bnone of the sons of Levi. 16 Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and ^cMeshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight, 17 and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brothers and ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks and} the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God. 18 And ^eby the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of ^fMahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18; 19 also ^gHashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of ^hthe sons of Merari, with his kinsmen and their sons, 20;