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Ezra 10:28

in Ezra 10

From the descendants of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.

KJV

Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.

This verse in Ezra 10

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

among the other Israelites

on Ezra 10:25-43

The heading "among the other Israelites" opens the longest stretch of the chapter, nineteen verses of names. Ten or more houses of ordinary Israelites are named, which shows how far the failure had spread. By verse 17 the cases were already dealt with, so the list records finished discipline.

This site's exposition

From the descendants of Bebai

Bebai had sent 623 men in the first return, by Ezra 2:11, and 28 more with Ezra at 8:11. Its four names are the fewest of any lay house here.

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

6 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

  • בֵּבָ֑יBebai

    bevaiH893 →6 times

  • יְהוֹחָנָ֥ןJehohanan

    yehochananH3076 →

  • חֲנַנְיָ֖הHananiah

    chananyahH2608 →

  • זַבַּ֥יZabbai

    zabaiH2079 →

  • עַתְלָֽי׃ סAthlai

    ʾatlaiH6270 →

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

The walk

3 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 2:11

    the descendants of Bebai, 623;

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 7:16

      the descendants of Bebai, 628;

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Ezra 8:11

      from the descendants of Bebai, Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him 28 men;

  • Through

    Ezra 8:11

    from the descendants of Bebai, Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him 28 men;

    it leads to

    • Ezra 2:11

      the descendants of Bebai, 623;

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

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 2:11, the first register; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 8; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 10; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.