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Ezra 8:9

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from the descendants of Joab, Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him 218 men;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

KJV

Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

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This verse in Ezra 8

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

and with him two hundred males

on Ezra 8:4-14

Eleven houses follow, each with its own count, from two hundred males under Elihoenai to fifty under Ebed, laymen numbered the way a company is mustered before it moves. The same family names, Pahathmoab, Shechaniah, Adin, Elam, appear in the earlier list of Ezra 2 and again in Nehemiah 7, and the readings on why the two censuses differ in their numerals are named without a verdict, either copyist transmission of numerals or two separate stages of one register. Shechaniah's name covers two different houses in this one chapter, a reminder that a family name in this era marks a clan rather than a single father. Set beside the priests and the house of David already named, the laymen counted here total near fifteen hundred, a company large enough to need its own muster before it can move.

The words behind it

10 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.

  • מִבְּנֵ֣יof [the] descendants of

    mibeneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יוֹאָ֔בJoab

    yoavH3097 →

  • עֹבַדְיָ֖הObadiah

    ʾoadyahH5662 →

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • יְחִיאֵ֑לJehiel

    yechielH3171 →14 times

  • וְעִמּ֕וֹand with him

    veimoH5973 →1050 times

  • מָאתַ֛יִם[were] two hundred

    matayimH3967 →581 times

  • וּשְׁמֹנָ֥הand eight-

    ushemonahH8083 →109 times

  • עָשָׂ֖רteen

    ʾasarH6240 →338 times

  • הַזְּכָרִֽים׃ סthe males

    hazekharimH2145 →82 times

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

7 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 2:6

    the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,812;

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 7:11

      the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,818;

    • Ezra 8:4

      from the descendants of Pahath-Moab, Eliehoenai son of Zerahiah, and with him 200 men;

    • Ezra 10:30

      From the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.

    • Ezra 10:14

      Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until…

  • Through

    Nehemiah 7:11

    the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,818;

    it leads to

    • Ezra 2:6

      the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,812;

    • Nehemiah 10:14

      And the leaders of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,

    • Nehemiah 8:4

      Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform built for this occasion. At his right side stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, and at his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum,…

About Ezra

Ezra Kneels in Prayer, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezra Kneels in Prayer, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther and W. F. Adeney, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Expositor's Bible).

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