Verse 23
Ezra 8:23
Geneva Bible
23
So we fasted, aud besought our God (Elohim) for this: and he was intreated of vs.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/נָּצ֛וּמָ/ה וַ/נְּבַקְשָׁ֥/ה מֵ/אֱלֹהֵ֖י/נוּ עַל זֹ֑את וַ/יֵּעָתֵ֖ר לָֽ/נוּ
English Translation
And we will be urgent, and we will seek from our God about this, and He will be entreated for us.
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Chapter 8 Context
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These are now the chiefe fathers of them, and the genealogie of them that came vp with mee from Babe...
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Of the sonnes of Phinehas, Gershom: of the sonnes of Ithamar, Daniel: of the sonnes of Dauid, Hattus...
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Of the sonnes of Shechaniah, of the sonnes of Pharosh, Zechariah, and with him the count of the male...
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Of the sonnes of Pahath Moab, Elihoenai, the sonne of Zerahiah, and with him two hundreth males.
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Of the sonnes of Shechaniah, the sonne of Iahaziel, and with him three hundreth males.
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And of the sonnes of Adin, Ebed the sonne of Ionathan, and with him fiftie males.
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And of the sonnes of Elam, Ieshaiah the sonne of Athaliah, and with him seuentie males.
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And of the sonnes of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the sonne of Michael, and with him fourescore males.
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Of the sonnes of Ioab, Obadiah the sonne of Iehiel, and with him two hundreth and eighteene males.
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And of the sonnes of Shelomith the sonne of Iosiphiah, and with him an hundreth and threescore males...
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And of the sonnes of Bebai, Zechariah the sonne of Bebai, and with him eight and twentie males.
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And of the sonnes of Azgad, Iohanan the sonne of Hakkatan, and with him an hundreth and ten males.
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And of the sonnes of Adonikam, that were the last, whose names are these: Eliphelet, Iehiel and Shem...
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And of the sonnes of Biguai, Vthai, and Zabbud, and with them seuentie males.
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And I gathered them to the Riuer that goeth toward Ahaua, and there abode we three dayes: then I vie...
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Therefore sent I to Eliezer, to Ariel, to Shemeiah, and to Elnathan, and to Iarib, and to Elnathan,...
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And I gaue them commandement, to Iddo the chiefest at the place of Casiphia, and I told them the wor...
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So by the good hande of our God (Elohim) which was vpon vs, they brought vs a man of vnderstanding o...
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Also Hashabiah, and with him Ieshaiah of the sonnes of Merari, with his brethren, and their sonnes t...
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And of the Nethinims, whom Dauid had set, and the Princes for the seruice of the Leuites, two hundre...
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21
And there at the Riuer, by Ahaua, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble our selues before our Go...
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For I was ashamed to require of the King an armie and horsemen, to helpe vs against the enemie in th...
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So we fasted, aud besought our God (Elohim) for this: and he was intreated of vs.
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Then I separated twelue of the chiefe of the Priests, Sherebiah, and Hashabiah, and ten of their bre...
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And weighed them the siluer and the gold, and the vessels, euen the offring of ye house of our God (...
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And I weighed vnto their hand sixe hundreth and fiftie talents of siluer, and in siluer vessel, an h...
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And twentie basins of golde, of a thousand drammes, and two vessels of shining brasse very good, and...
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And I said vnto them, Ye are consecrate vnto the Lord, and the vessels are consecrate, and the gold...
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Watch ye, and keepe them vntill ye weigh them before the chiefe Priestes and the Leuites, and the ch...
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So the Priests and the Leuites receiued the weight of the siluer and of the golde, and of the vessel...
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Then we departed from the Riuer of Ahauah on the twelft day of the first moneth, to go vnto Ierusale...
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And we came to Ierusalem, and abode there three dayes.
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And on ye fourth day was the siluer weighed, and the golde and the vessell in the house of our God (...
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By number and by weight of euery one, and all the weight was written at the same time.
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Also the children of the captiuitie, which were come out of captiuitie, offred burnt offrings vnto t...
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And they deliuered the Kings commission vnto the Kings officers, and to the captaines beyond the Riu...
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