Ezra · Chapter 8

Ezra 8:5

¹These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.²Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.³Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.⁴Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.⁵Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.⁶Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.⁷And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.⁸And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.⁹Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.¹⁰And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.¹¹And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.¹²And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.¹³And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.¹⁴Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.¹⁵And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.¹⁶Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.¹⁷And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.¹⁸And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;¹⁹And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;²⁰Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.²¹Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.²²For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.²³So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.²⁴Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,²⁵And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:²⁶I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;²⁷Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.²⁸And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.²⁹Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.³⁰So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.³¹Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.³²And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.³³Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;³⁴By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.³⁵Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.³⁶And they delivered the king’s commissions unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.

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5	Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.	from the descendants of Zattu, Shecaniah son of Jahaziel, and with him 300 men;	Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.

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English	Hebrew	Say it	Strong's	Meaning
of [the] descendants of	מִבְּנֵ֥י	mi-be-NEI	H1121G	No entry
Zattu	זַתּוּא	za-TU'	H2240G	Zattu זַתּוּא (zat.tu) A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.8 § Zattu = "brightness of him" a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel
Shecaniah	שְׁכַנְיָ֖ה	she-khan-YAH	H7935K	Shecaniah שְׁכַנְיָהוּ (she.khan.yah) A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezr.8.5 § Shecaniah or Shechaniah = "dweller with Jehovah" 1) a descendant of Zerubbabel whose descendants returned from exile with Ezra 2) son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam and one who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra 3) father of Shemaiah who repaired part of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah 4) son of Arah, father-in-law of Tobiah who opposed Nehemiah 5) a priest who returned from exile with Zerubbabel 6) a priest in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah
[the] son of	בֶּן־	ben-	H1121A	son: child בֵּן (ben) : child/son
Jahaziel	יַחֲזִיאֵ֑ל	ya-cha-zi-'EL	H3166K	Jahaziel יַחֲזִיאֵל (ya.cha.zi.el) A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezr.8.5 § Jahaziel = "beheld of God" 1) a Benjamite warrior who joined David at Ziklag 2) a priest in the reign of David who helped move the ark 3) a Kohathite Levite, 3rd son of Hebron 4) a Levite, son of Zechariah, of the sons of Asaph, in the reign of Jehoshaphat 5) an ancestor of one of the families who returned from exile with Ezra
and with him	וְעִמּ֕וֹ	ve-'i-MO	H5973A	with עִם (im) 1) with 1a) with 1b) against 1c) toward 1d) as long as
[were] three	שְׁלֹ֥שׁ	she-LOSH	H7969	three שָׁלֹשׁ (sha.losh) 1) three, triad 1a) 3, 300, third Aramaic equivalent: te.lat (תְּלָת "three" H8532)
hundreds	מֵא֖וֹת	me-'ot	H3967	hundred מֵאָה (me.ah) 1) hundred 1a) as simple number 1b) as part of larger number 1c) as a fraction-one one-hundredth (1/100) Aramaic equivalent: me.ah (מְאָה "hundred" H3969)
the males	הַזְּכָרִֽים׃ ס	ha-ze-kha-RIM	H2145	male זָכָר (za.khar) 1) male (of humans and animals) adj 2) male (of humans)

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Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.