Yǐsīlājì 8:17

17 Wǒ dǎfa tāmen wǎng jiā xī fĕi yǎ dìfang , qù jiàn nàli de shǒulǐng Yìduō , yòu gàosu tāmen dāng xiàng Yìduō hé tāde dìxiōng ní tí níng shuō shénme huà , jiào tāmen wèi wǒmen shén de diàn daì shǐyòng de rén lái .

Yǐsīlājì 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.

Yǐsīlājì 8:17 In-Context

15 Wǒ zhāo jù zhèxie rén zaì liú rù Yàhāwà de hé biān , wǒmen zaì nàli zhù le sān rì . wǒ chá kàn bǎixìng hé jìsī , jiàn méiyǒu Lìwèi rén zaì nàli ,

16 Jiù zhào shǒulǐng Yǐlìyǐxiè , Yàliè , Shìmǎyǎ , Yǐlìnádān , Yǎlì , Yǐlìnádān , Nádān , Sājiālìyà , Mǐshūlán , yòu zhào jiāo xí yuē yǎLìhé Yǐlìnádān .

17 Wǒ dǎfa tāmen wǎng jiā xī fĕi yǎ dìfang , qù jiàn nàli de shǒulǐng Yìduō , yòu gàosu tāmen dāng xiàng Yìduō hé tāde dìxiōng ní tí níng shuō shénme huà , jiào tāmen wèi wǒmen shén de diàn daì shǐyòng de rén lái .

18 Méng wǒmen shén shī ēn de shǒu bāngzhu wǒmen , tāmen zaì Yǐsèliè de céng sūn , Lìwèi de sūnzi , Mālì de hòuyì zhōng daì yī gè tōngdá rén lái . hái yǒu Shìlìbǐhé tāde zhòng zǐ yǔ dìxiōng gōng yī shí bā rén .

19 Yòu yǒu Hāshābǐyǎ , tóng zhe tā yǒu Mǐlālì de zǐsūn Yéshāiyà , bìng tāde zhòng zǐ hé dìxiōng gōng èr shí rén .