Verse 1

These are now the principall fathers of them, and this is the register of them that went vp with me from Babylon, what time as king Artaxerxes raigned.

Referenced Verses

  • Ezra 7:7 : 7 And there went vp certaine of the children of Israel, of the priestes, leuites, singers, porters, and of the Nethinims vnto Hierusalem, in the seuenth yere of king Artaxerxes.
  • Ezra 7:13 : 13 I haue commaunded that all they of the people of Israel, and of the priestes and Leuites in my realme, which are minded of their owne good wyll to go vp to Hierusalem, go with thee:
  • Neh 7:70-71 : 70 And certaine of the auncient fathers gaue vnto the worke: Athirsatha gaue to the treasure a thousand peeces of golde, fiftie basons, fiue hundred and thirtie priestes garmentes. 71 And some of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the treasure of the worke, twentie thousand peeces of gold, & two thousand and two hundred pounde of siluer.
  • 1 Chr 4:33 : 33 And all their villages that were round about the same cities, vnto Baal. This is the habitation of them, and their genealogie:
  • 1 Chr 9:1 : 1 And so all Israel numbred by kinredes, beholde they are written in the booke of the kinges of Israel and of Iuda, and were caryed away to Babylon for their transgression:
  • 1 Chr 9:34 : 34 These were auncient fathers of the Leuites in their generations, & dwelt at Hierusalem.
  • 1 Chr 24:31 : 31 And these cast lottes next to their brethren the sonnes of Aaron in the presence of Dauid the king, and Zadoc, and Ahimelec, and the auncient fathers of the priestes & Leuites, euen the principall fathers, before their younger brethren. The singers are appoynted with their places and lottes.
  • 1 Chr 26:32 : 32 And his brethren were men of actiuitie, euen two thousand and seuen hundred auncient fathers: whom king Dauid made rulers ouer the Rubenites, Gadites, and ouer the halfe tribe of Manasse, for euery matter pertayning to God, and for the kinges busynesse.
  • 2 Chr 26:12 : 12 And the whole number of the auncient fathers and of the men of might, were two thousand and sixe hundred.
  • Ezra 1:5 : 5 Then gat vp the principall fathers of Iuda and Beniamin, and the priestes and Leuites, and all they whose spirite God had raysed to go vp and to builde the house of the Lorde which is at Hierusalem.
  • Ezra 2:62 : 62 These sought their euidence among them that had the regester of birth, and were not founde therein, therefore were they put from the priesthood.