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Ezra 8:13

in Ezra 8

from the later descendants of Adonikam, these were their names: Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them 60 men;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And of the sons of Adonikam, that were the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them threescore males.

KJV

And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.

This verse in Ezra 8

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

and with him 200 men

on Ezra 8:4-14

Eleven lay houses follow, each with its own count, beginning with Eliehoenai of Pahath-Moab and 200 men. Pahath-Moab, Adin and Elam also stand in Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7, where the numerals differ. The difference is traced to copyists or to two stages of one register, with no verdict given.

This site's exposition

from the later descendants of Adonikam

The word later marks these men off from the house of Adonikam that came first, 666 men by the count of Ezra 2:13. Three leaders share this company of 60. Bigvai at verse 14 has two, and each other house of the roll has one.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

That the Levites who went in this company were in a manner pressed into the service. Ezra appointed a general rendezvous of all his company at a certain place upon new-year's day, the first day of the first month. ch. vii. Then and there he took a view of them, and mustered them, and (which was strange) found there none of the sons of Levi,

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וּמִבְּנֵ֣יand of [the] descendants of

    umibeneiH1121 →4930 times

  • אֲדֹנִיקָם֮Adonikam

    ʾadonikamH140 →

  • אַחֲרֹנִים֒[the] last [ones]

    ʾacharonimH314 →

  • וְאֵ֣לֶּהand these

    veelehH428 →746 times

  • שְׁמוֹתָ֔ם[are] names their

    shemotamH8034 →864 times

  • אֱלִיפֶ֖לֶטEliphelet

    ʾelifeletH467 →

  • יְעִיאֵ֣לJeiel

    yeielH3273 →

  • וּֽשְׁמַעְיָ֑הand Shemaiah

    ushema'yahH8098 →41 times

  • וְעִמָּהֶ֖םand with them

    veimahemH5973 →1050 times

  • שִׁשִּׁ֥ים[were] sixty

    shishimH8346 →59 times

  • הַזְּכָרִֽים׃ סthe males

    hazekharimH2145 →82 times

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

The walk

2 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

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 Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 2:13, the first register; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 8; Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. F. Adeney, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Expositor's Bible).