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So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer.
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And I separated twelve of the leaders of the priests--Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them--
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and weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the articles, the offering for the house of our God which the king and his counselors and his princes, and all Israel who were present, had offered.
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I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, silver articles weighing one hundred talents, one hundred talents of gold,
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twenty gold basins worth a thousand drachmas, and two vessels of fine polished bronze, precious as gold.
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And I said to them, "You are holy to the Lord; the articles are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord God of your fathers.
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Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the leaders of the priests and the Levites and heads of the fathers' houses of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the Lord."
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So the priests and the Levites received the silver and the gold and the articles by weight, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.
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Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. And the hand of our God was upon us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambush along the road.
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So we came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.
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Now on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the articles were weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui,