Esra 8:18

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Og da Gud holdt sin gode hånd over oss, sendte de oss en forstandig mann som hette Serebja, en efterkommer av Mahli, som var sønn av Israels sønn Levi, og hans sønner og hans brødre, atten i tallet,

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by the good hand: Ezra 8:22, Ezra 7:28, Nehemiah 2:8, Proverbs 3:6

a man of understanding: Ezra 8:16, Proverbs 24:3, Jeremiah 3:15, Daniel 1:20, 1 Corinthians 14:20

Mahli: Numbers 3:20, 1 Chronicles 6:19

Sherebiah: Ezra 8:24, Nehemiah 8:7, Nehemiah 9:4, Nehemiah 9:5, Nehemiah 10:12, Nehemiah 12:24

Reciprocal: Ezra 7:6 - according to Isaiah 66:14 - the hand Acts 11:21 - the hand

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And by the good hand of our God upon us,.... Favouring their designs and orders, protecting those that were sent, and inclining those they were sent to use their interest and authority with those that were under them, and making them willing also to agree to what was proposed to them:

they brought us a man of understanding of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; an Israelite, of the tribe of Levi, in the line of Mahli a son of Merari, the third son of Levi:

and Sherebiah; or rather "even Sherebiah"; so Aben Ezra; for he is the understanding man that is meant, and described by his pedigree:

with his sons and his brethren, eighteen; all together made this number.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Sherebiah - Either a name has fallen out before the words “a man of understanding,” or the “and” here has crept into the text by accident. Sherebiah appears among the most earnest of the Levites under Nehemiah (see the marginal references).