Ezra 10:21
in Ezra 10From the descendants of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
KJV
And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
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This verse in Ezra 10
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
among the sons of the priests there were found
on Ezra 10:18-22
The list opens where it is hardest to read, among the sons of the priests, and the family of the high priest Jeshua is named first: even the household nearest the altar was not exempt. Each guilty priest gives his hand, a pledge to put his wife away, and offers a ram of the flock as a trespass offering, atonement set alongside a confession that did not by itself settle the matter. Four priestly houses appear in these verses, and the roll's own order, priests named before any other class, argues where the reckoning began.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
What good impressions were made upon the people by Ezra's humiliation and confession of sin. No sooner was it noised in the city that their new governor, in whom they rejoiced, was himself in grief, and to so great a degree, for them and their sin, than presently there assembled to him a very great congregation, to see what the matter was and to mingle their tears with his,
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּמִבְּנֵ֖י | umibenei | and of [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| חָרִ֑ם | charim | Harim | H2766 → | 11 times |
| מַעֲשֵׂיָ֤ה | maaseyah | Maaseiah | H4641 → | 23 times |
| וְאֵֽלִיָּה֙ | veeliyah | and Elijah | H452 → | |
| וּֽשְׁמַֽעְיָ֔ה | ushema'yah | and Shemaiah | H8098 → | 41 times |
| וִיחִיאֵ֖ל | vichiel | and Jehiel | H3171 → | 14 times |
| וְעֻזִיָּֽה׃ | veuziyah | and Uzziah | H5818 → |
וּמִבְּנֵ֖יand of [the] sons of
umibeneiH1121 →4930 times
חָרִ֑םHarim
charimH2766 →11 times
מַעֲשֵׂיָ֤הMaaseiah
maaseyahH4641 →23 times
וְאֵֽלִיָּה֙and Elijah
veeliyahH452 →
וּֽשְׁמַֽעְיָ֔הand Shemaiah
ushema'yahH8098 →41 times
וִיחִיאֵ֖לand Jehiel
vichielH3171 →14 times
וְעֻזִיָּֽה׃and Uzziah
veuziyahH5818 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
6 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezra 2:39and the descendants of Harim, 1,017.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 24:8
the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Nehemiah 7:42
and the descendants of Harim, 1,017.
- 1 Chronicles 24:8
Through
1 Chronicles 24:8the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
it leads to
- Ezra 2:39
and the descendants of Harim, 1,017.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Nehemiah 7:35
the descendants of Harim, 320;
- Nehemiah 12:15
of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
- Ezra 2:39
Through
Nehemiah 7:42and the descendants of Harim, 1,017.
it leads to
- Ezra 10:31
From the descendants of Harim:
- Ezra 10:31
About Ezra
Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonDivided kingdomElijahThe Tishbite who shut heaven for three years and a half, called down fire on Carmel, heard the still small voice at Horeb, and wen…
- PersonDivided kingdom (c. 792-740 BC)UzziahJudah's powerful king (2 Chr 26), struck with leprosy for usurping the priesthood; the year of his death frames Isaiah's throne vi…
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.