1 Esdras 8:42
King James VersionSource notes
“But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,”
Context
39Of the sons of Adonikam the last, and these are the names of them, Eliphalet, Jewel, and Samaias, and with them seventy men:
40Of the sons of Bago, Uthi the son of Istalcurus, and with him seventy men.
41And these I gathered together to the river called Theras, where we pitched our tents three days: and then I surveyed them.
42But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,
43Then sent I unto Eleazar, and Iduel, and Masman,
44And Alnathan, and Mamaias, and Joribas, and Nathan, Eunatan, Zacharias, and Mosollamon, principal men and learned.
45And I bade them that they should go unto Saddeus the captain, who was in the place of the treasury: