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Ezra 10:27

in Ezra 10

From the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

KJV

And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

This verse in Ezra 10

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Moreover of Israel

on Ezra 10:25-43

The heading moreover of Israel opens the chapter's longest stretch, nineteen verses of names sorted by family, the lay portion of the same registry method that had numbered the return in Ezra 2. No comment interrupts the roll; the sheer count of families involved, ten or more houses of ordinary Israelites, is left to make its own point about how far the failure had spread. A name recorded here is a case already closed by the time the chapter reached this point, the trespass offered and the wife put away, so the list stands as a record of finished discipline rather than an open charge.

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

  • זַתּ֑וּאZattu

    zatu'H22405 times

  • אֶלְיוֹעֵנַ֤יElioenai

    ʾelyoenaiH4549 times

  • אֶלְיָשִׁיב֙Eliashib

    ʾelyashivH47517 times

  • מַתַּנְיָ֣הMattaniah

    matanyahH498316 times

  • וִֽירֵמ֔וֹתand Jeremoth

    viremotH3406

  • וְזָבָ֖דand Zabad

    vezavadH20668 times

  • וַעֲזִיזָֽא׃ סand Aziza

    vaaziza'H5819

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

The walk

2 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.

About Ezra

Ezra Kneels in Prayer, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezra Kneels in Prayer, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

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.