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And I bade them that they should go unto Iddo the captain, who was in the place of the treasury;
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and commanded them that they should speak unto Iddo and to his brethren and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests' office in the house of the Lord.
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And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought unto us skillful men of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, Sherebiah and his sons and his brethren, who were eighteen.
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And Hashabiah, and Annunus, and Jeshaiah his brother, of the sons of Hananiah, and their sons, were twenty men;
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and of the servants of the temple whom David had ordained and the principal men for the service of the Levites, to wit, the servants of the temple, two hundred and twenty, the catalog of whose names were shown.
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And there I vowed a fast unto the young men before our Lord to desire of Him a prosperous journey both for us and those who were with us, for our children, and for the cattle.
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For I was ashamed to ask the king for footmen and horsemen and an escort for safeguard against our adversaries.
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For we had said unto the king that the power of the Lord our God should be with those who seek Him to support them in all ways.
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And again we besought our Lord concerning these things, and found Him favorable unto us.
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Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah and Hashabiah and ten men of their brethren with them;
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and I weighed them the gold and the silver and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king and his council and the princes and all Israel had given.