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Ezra 10:21

in Ezra 10

From 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.

This verse in Ezra 10

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Among the descendants of the priests

on Ezra 10:18-22

The list opens among the priests with the descendants of the high priest Jeshua, so even the household nearest the altar is on it. Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah pledge to send their wives away, and for their guilt they present a ram as a guilt offering.

This site's exposition

From the descendants of Harim

Harim is a priestly house of the first return, counted at 1,017 men in Ezra 2:39. Albert Barnes counts 13 priests in this list beyond the high priest's family. Harim gives five of them.

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

7 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

    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 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.

Where this verse is studied

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About Ezra

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 2:39, the first register; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.