5. Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.
6. Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed, the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
7. And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah, the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
8. And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah, the son of Michael, and with him eighty males.
9. Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah, the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
10. And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him one hundred and sixty males.
11. And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah, the son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight males.
12. And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan, the son of Hakkatan, and with him one hundred and ten males.
13. And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these: Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them sixty males.
14. Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai and Zabbud and with them seventy males.
15. And I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we encamped three days, and having searched among the people and the priests, I did not find there any of the sons of Levi.
16. Then I commissioned Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, principals, also Joiarib and Elnathan, men of understanding;
17. and I sent them unto Iddo, the captain at the place of Casiphia, and I put words in their mouth that they should speak unto Iddo and to his brethren, the Nethinims, at the place of Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.
18. And by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;
19. and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;
20. also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the ministry of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.
21. Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.