19 Also Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his brethren, and their sons twenty.

20 And of the [a]Nethinim, whom David had set, and the Princes for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty of the Nethinim, which all were named by name.

21 And there at the river, by Ahava, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble [b]ourselves before our God, and seek of him a right way for us, and for our children, and for all our substance.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:20 Read Ezra 2:43.
  2. Ezra 8:21 He showeth that the end of fasting, is to humble the body to the spirit, which must proceed of the heart lively touched, or else it is but hypocrisy.

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