Esdras 8:17

17 E os enviei a Ido, chefe em Casífia, e lhes pus na boca palavras para dizerem a Ido e aos seus irmãos, os netinins, em Casífia, que nos trouxessem ministros para a casa do nosso Deus.

Esdras 8:17 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 8:17

And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief, at the
place Casiphia
Not a place by the Caspian sea, and near the Caspian mountains, as Munster, which was too far off to go and return in the time they must, see ( Ezra 7:9 ) ( Ezra 8:15 Ezra 8:31 ) , but, as Jarchi, a place in Babylon so called, a village near it, or a parish or street in it, where Ezra knew lived many of the Levites and Nethinims, and where Iddo was the chief of the Levites, and over them both:

and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the
Nethinims, at the place Casiphia;
but Iddo was not one of the Nethinims; for he was chief of the Levites, and by his authority many of them were sent as well as of the Nethinims; but none of the latter were over the Levites, for they were servants to them, ( Ezra 8:20 ) , but, according to Jarchi, the Nethinims are not at all intended in this clause, who reads the words,

to Iddo and Achim,
(the name of a man with him; perhaps it may be better rendered, "to Iddo and his brother",)

who were appointed, or settled, in the place Casiphia;
and with him De Dieu agrees, and so the Syriac version,

who dwelt in Casiphia: that they should bring unto us ministers for the
house of our God;
both Levites to be singers and porters there, and the Nethinims to wait on them.

Esdras 8:17 In-Context

15 Ajuntei-os � margem do rio que corre para Ava; e ficamos ali acampados três dias. Então passei em revista o povo e os sacerdotes, e não achei ali nenhum dos filhos de Levi.

16 Mandei, pois, chamar Eliézer, Ariel, Semaías, Elnatã, Jaribe, Elnatã, Natã, Zacarias e Mesulão, os chefes, como também, Joiaribe e Elnatã, que eram mestres.

17 E os enviei a Ido, chefe em Casífia, e lhes pus na boca palavras para dizerem a Ido e aos seus irmãos, os netinins, em Casífia, que nos trouxessem ministros para a casa do nosso Deus.

18 E, pela boa mão de nosso Deus sobre nós, trouxeram-nos um homem entendido, dos filhos de Mali, filho de Levi, filho de Israel; e Serebias, com os seus filhos e irmãos, dezoito;

19 e Hasabias, e com ele Jesaías, dos filhos de Merári, com seus irmãos e os filhos deles, vinte;