27 I was encouraged by my God’s help, and I gathered people from Israel to go up with me.
28 These are the leaders, according to their families and their divisions, who went up with me from Babylon, in King Artaxerxes’ rule:
41 I assembled them at the Theras River, where I inspected them. We camped at that place for three days.
42 When I found no families from the priests or the Levites there,
43 I sent word to Eleazar, Iduel, Maasmas, Elnathan, Shemaiah, Jarib, Nathan, Elnathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were the leaders and persons of great learning.
44 I told them to go to Iddo, who was the official in charge at the residence of the treasury,
45 and ordered them to ask Iddo and his relatives and the treasurers at that place to send us some persons to serve as priests in the Lord’s house.