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Ezra 10:31

in Ezra 10

From the descendants of Harim:

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

KJV

And of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

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 Harim

This is the lay house of Harim, counted at 320 in the first return by Ezra 2:32. The priests of Harim in verse 21 belong to a second house of that name. Its eight names follow in verse 32.

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.

  • וּבְנֵ֖יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • חָרִ֑םHarim

    charimH2766 →11 times

  • אֱלִיעֶ֧זֶרEliezer

    ʾeliezerH461 →14 times

  • יִשִּׁיָּ֛הIsshiah

    yishiyahH3449 →

  • מַלְכִּיָּ֖הMalkijah

    malkiyahH4441 →16 times

  • שְׁמַֽעְיָ֥הShemaiah

    shema'yahH8098 →41 times

  • שִׁמְעֽוֹן׃Simeon

    shimonH8095 →

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

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

    Nehemiah 3:11

    Malchijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-moab repaired another section, as well as the Tower of the Ovens.

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 12:38

      The second thanksgiving choir proceeded to the left, and I followed it with half the people along the top of the wall, past the Tower of the Ovens to the Broad Wall,

    • Ezra 2:6

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

    • Ezra 8:4

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

    • Nehemiah 10:14

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

    • Nehemiah 10:5

      Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

  • Through

    Nehemiah 7:35

    the descendants of Harim, 320;

    it leads to

  • Through

    Ezra 2:32

    the descendants of Harim, 320;

    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 2:32, the first register; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 10; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.