Ezra 8:22-24

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²² For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to defend us from the enemy in the way: because we had said to the king: The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness: and his power and strength, and wrath upon all them that forsake him.

²³ And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us.

²⁴ And I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sarabias, and Hasabias, and with them ten of their brethren,