Ezra 8:17 Cross References - ACV

¹⁷ And I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say to Iddo, and his brothers the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.

¹⁵ And thou shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do,

²² And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron, and before his sons. As LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them. ²³ And LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ This is that which belongs to the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service in the work of the tent of meeting. ²⁵ And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work, and shall serve no more, ²⁶ but shall minister with their brothers in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shall thou do to the Levites concerning their charges.

⁶ And I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the sons of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

¹⁸ I will raise up a prophet for them from among their brothers, like thee. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

³ And go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

¹⁹ And the king said, Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken, for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thy handmaid.

³ And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward. And their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. ⁴ Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of LORD. And six thousand were officers and judges, ⁵ and four thousand were porters, and four thousand praised LORD with the instruments which I made, David said, to praise therewith. ⁶ And David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

²⁶ And also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tabernacle and all the vessels of it for the service of it. ²⁷ For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward. ²⁸ For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God, also ²⁹ for the showbread, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size. ³⁰ And to stand every morning to thank and praise LORD, and likewise at evening. ³¹ And to offer all burnt offerings to LORD, on the sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before LORD. ³² And that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of LORD.

⁴³ The Nethinim: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,

⁵⁸ All the Nethinim and the sons of Solomon's servants were three hundred ninety-two.

⁷ And some of the sons of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

⁹ Then LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And LORD said to me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

¹⁹ Therefore thus says LORD: If thou return, then I will bring thee again that thou may stand before me. And if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shall be as my mouth. They shall return to thee, but thou shall not return to them.

⁵ I left thee behind in Crete on account of this: That thou should set in order the things lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded thee,