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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

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 Pashhur

Pashhur was the largest of the four priestly houses of the first return, with 1,247 men at Ezra 2:38. Its six names are the most of any priestly house here. A Maaseiah stands in each priestly house of verses 19, 21 and 22.

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

    umibeneiH1121 →4930 times

  • פַּשְׁח֑וּרPashhur

    pashchurH6583 →

  • אֶלְיוֹעֵינַ֤יElioenai

    ʾelyoeinaiH454 →9 times

  • מַֽעֲשֵׂיָה֙Maaseiah

    maaseyahH4641 →23 times

  • יִשְׁמָעֵ֣אלIshmael

    yishmaelH3458 →

  • נְתַנְאֵ֔לNethanel

    netanelH5417 →

  • יוֹזָבָ֖דJozabad

    yozavadH3107 →11 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

Where this verse is studied

On this page

About Ezra

Cyrus Restores the Vessels of the Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cyrus Restores the Vessels of the Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 2:38, the first register; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 10; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.