Ezra 6:18
And they set the priests in their classes, and the Levites in their divisions, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem: as it is written in the book of Moses.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
19And the children of the captivity held the passover upon the fourteenth of the first month.
Cross References
Numbers 3:9And thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given to him out of the children of Israel.
1 Chronicles 23:1And David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
1 Chronicles 24:24The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir;
2 Chronicles 7:6And the priests stood in their charges, and the Levites with Jehovah's instruments of music, which David the king had made to praise Jehovah, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever, when David praised by their means; and the priests sounded the trumpets opposite to them, and all Israel stood.
2 Chronicles 35:10And the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's commandment.
Matthew Henry on Ezra 6:14-22
Completion of the Second Temple. ( b. c. 516.) 13 Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shethar-boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily. 14 And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. 15 And… Read the whole commentary →