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Ezra 10:22

in Ezra 10

From the descendants of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

KJV

And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

This verse in Ezra 10

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This 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

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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

8 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וּמִבְּנֵ֖יand of [the] sons of

    umibeneiH11214930 times

  • פַּשְׁח֑וּרPashhur

    pashchurH6583

  • אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֤יElioenai

    ʾelyoeinaiH4549 times

  • מַֽעֲשֵׂיָה֙Maaseiah

    maaseyahH464123 times

  • יִשְׁמָעֵ֣אלIshmael

    yishmaelH3458

  • נְתַנְאֵ֔לNethanel

    netanelH5417

  • יוֹזָבָ֖דJozabad

    yozavadH310711 times

  • וְאֶלְעָשָֽׂה׃ סand Eleasah

    veelasahH501

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 2:38

    the descendants of Pashhur, 1,247;

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 9:12

      Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah; Maasai son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Nehemiah 7:41

      the descendants of Pashhur, 1,247;

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 9:12

    Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah; Maasai son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

    it leads to

  • Through

    Nehemiah 7:41

    the descendants of Pashhur, 1,247;

    it leads to

About Ezra

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.