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Ezra 10:23

in Ezra 10

Among the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

KJV

Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

This verse in Ezra 10

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Among the Levites

on Ezra 10:23-24

The roll moves from priests to Levites, singers and porters. Only a handful of names appear in each order, six Levites, one singer, three porters, against the much longer priestly and lay lists. The proportion is itself a kind of witness: the failure ran widest among the laity.

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

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.

  • וּמִֽן־and of

    umin-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַלְוִיִּ֑םthe Levites

    halviyimH3881 →291 times

  • יוֹזָבָ֣דJozabad

    yozavadH3107 →11 times

  • וְשִׁמְעִ֗יand Shimei

    veshimiH8096 →43 times

  • וְקֵֽלָיָה֙and Kelaiah

    vekelayahH7041 →

  • ה֣וּאthat

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • קְלִיטָ֔א[is] Kelita

    kelita'H7042 →

  • פְּתַֽחְיָ֥הPethahiah

    petachyahH6611 →

  • יְהוּדָ֖הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • וֶאֱלִיעֶֽזֶר׃ סand Eliezer

    veeliezerH461 →14 times

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 8:33

    On the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and sacred articles into the hand of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar son of Phinehas…

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 3:4

      Next to them, Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, made repairs. Next to him, Meshullam son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel, made repairs; and next to him, Zadok son of Baana…

    • Nehemiah 3:21

      Next to him, Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, repaired another section, from the doorway of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house.

    • Ezra 8:30

      So the priests and Levites took charge of the silver and gold and sacred articles that had been weighed out to be taken to the house of our God in Jerusalem.

    • Nehemiah 3:24

      After him, Binnui son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the angle and the corner,

    • 2 Corinthians 8:20–21

      We hope to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this generous gift.

  • Through

    Nehemiah 10:10

    and their associates: Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 8:7

      The Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah—instructed the people in the Law as they stood in their places.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Nehemiah 9:4–5

      And the Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani—stood on the raised platform and cried out in a loud voice to the LORD their God.

  • Through

    Nehemiah 11:16

    Shabbethai and Jozabad, two leaders of the Levites, who supervised the work outside the house of God;

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 26:20

      Now their fellow Levites were in charge of the treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries of the dedicated things.

Where this verse is studied

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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 Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.