Verse 1

These are now the chiefe fathers of them, and the genealogie of them that came vp with mee from Babel, in the reigne of King Artahshashte.

Referenced Verses

  • Ezra 7:7 : 7 And there went vp certaine of the children of Israel, and of the Priests, and the Leuites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims vnto Ierusalem, in the seuenth yere of King Artahshashte.
  • Ezra 7:13 : 13 I haue giuen commaundement, that euery one, that is willing in my kingdome of the people of Israel, and of the Priestes, and Leuites to goe to Ierusalem with thee, shall goe.
  • Neh 7:70-71 : 70 And certaine of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the worke. The Tirshatha gaue to the treasure, a thousand drammes of golde, fiftie basins, fiue hundreth and thirtie Priests garments. 71 And some of the chiefe fathers gaue vnto the treasure of the worke, twentie thousand drams of golde, and two thousande and two hundreth pieces of siluer.
  • 1 Chr 4:33 : 33 And all their townes that were rounde about these cities vnto Baal, These are their habitations and the declaration of their genealogie,
  • 1 Chr 9:1 : 1 Thus all Israel were nombred by their genealogies: and beholde, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel & of Iudah, & they were caried away to Babel for their trasgression.
  • 1 Chr 9:34 : 34 These were the chiefe fathers of the Leuites according to their generations, and the principall which dwelt at Ierusalem.
  • 1 Chr 24:31 : 31 And these also cast lots with their brethren the sonnes of Aaron before King Dauid, & Zadok and Ahimelech and the chiefe fathers of the Priests, and of the Leuites, euen the chiefe of the families against their yonger brethren.
  • 1 Chr 26:32 : 32 And his brethren men of actiuitie, two thousand & seuen hundreth chiefe fathers, whom King Dauid made rulers ouer the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh, for euery matter perteining to God, and for the Kings busines.
  • 2 Chr 26:12 : 12 The whole nomber of the chiefe of the families of the valiant men were two thousande and sixe hundreth.
  • Ezra 1:5 : 5 Then the chiefe fathers of Iudah & Beniamin, & the Priests & Leuites rose vp, with al them whose spirit God had raysed to goe vp, to builde the house of the Lord which is in Ierusalem.
  • Ezra 2:62 : 62 These sought their writing of the genealogies, but they were not founde: therefore were they put from the Priesthood.