²⁹ Guard and look after them until you weigh them before the chief priests, the Levites, and the heads of the families^[a] of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chamber of the house of Yahweh.” ³⁰ So the priests and Levites took over the weighed silver, gold, and the vessels to bring to Jerusalem for the house of our God.

Return to Jerusalem

³¹ On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the river of Ahava to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushing on the way.