Ezra 2:1-61

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Ezra 2:1-61

The Exiles Who Returned

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1} These^(A) now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon^(a) had deported to Babylon.^(B) They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town. ^{Tools
2} They came with Zerubbabel,^(C) Jeshua,^(D) Nehemiah, Seraiah,^(E) Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.

The number of the Israelite men included:^(b)

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3} Parosh’s descendants^(F)2,172

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4} Shephatiah’s descendants372

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5} Arah’s descendants775

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6} Pahath-moab’s descendants: Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants 2,812

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7} Elam’s descendants1,254

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8} Zattu’s descendants945

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9} Zaccai’s descendants760

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10} Bani’s descendants642

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11} Bebai’s descendants623

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12} Azgad’s descendants1,222

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13} Adonikam’s descendants^(G)666

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14} Bigvai’s descendants2,056

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15} Adin’s descendants454

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16} Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah98

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17} Bezai’s descendants323

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18} Jorah’s descendants112

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19} Hashum’s descendants223

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20} Gibbar’s descendants95

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21} Bethlehem’s^(H) people123

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22} Netophah’s men56

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23} Anathoth’s men128

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24} Azmaveth’s people42

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25} Kiriatharim’s, Chephirah’s, and Beeroth’s people743

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26} Ramah’s^(I) and Geba’s people621

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27} Michmas’s men122

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28} Bethel’s and Ai’s^(J) men223

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29} Nebo’s people52

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30} Magbish’s people156

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31} the other Elam’s people1,254

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32} Harim’s people320

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33} Lod’s, Hadid’s, and Ono’s people725

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34} Jericho’s^(K) people345

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35} Senaah’s people3,630

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36} The priests included:

Jedaiah’s descendants of the house of Jeshua 973

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37} Immer’s descendants1,052

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38} Pashhur’s descendants1,247

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39} and Harim’s descendants1,017

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40} The Levites included:

Jeshua’s and Kadmiel’s descendants from Hodaviah’s descendants 74

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41} The singers included:

Asaph’s^(L) descendants 128

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42} The gatekeepers’^(M) descendants included:

Shallum’s descendants, Ater’s descendants, Talmon’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants, Hatita’s descendants, Shobai’s descendants, in all 139

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43} The temple servants^(N) included:

Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants,
Tabbaoth’s descendants,

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44}

Keros’s descendants,
Siaha’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,

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45}

Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants,
Akkub’s descendants,

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46}

Hagab’s descendants,
Shalmai’s^(c) descendants, Hanan’s descendants,

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47}

Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants,
Reaiah’s descendants,

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48}

Rezin’s descendants,
Nekoda’s descendants, Gazzam’s descendants,

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49}

Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants,
Besai’s descendants,

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50}

Asnah’s descendants,
Meunim’s^(d) descendants, Nephusim’s^(e) descendants,

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51}

Bakbuk’s descendants, Hakupha’s descendants,
Harhur’s descendants,

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52}

Bazluth’s descendants,
Mehida’s descendants, Harsha’s descendants,

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53}

Barkos’s descendants, Sisera’s descendants,
Temah’s descendants,

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54}

Neziah’s descendants,
and Hatipha’s descendants.

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55} The descendants of Solomon’s servants^(O) included:

Sotai’s descendants, Hassophereth’s descendants, Peruda’s descendants,

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56} Jaalah’s descendants, Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,

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57} Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants, Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, and Ami’s descendants.

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58} All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants 392.

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59} The following are those who came from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer but were unable to prove that their families and ancestry were Israelite:

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60} Delaiah’s descendants, Tobiah’s descendants, Nekoda’s descendants 652

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61} and from the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, the descendants of Barzillai—who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name.

Footnotes:

a. Ezra 2:1: Nebuchadnezzar reigned 605–562 b.c.

b. Ezra 2:2: Lit the men of the people of Israel

c. Ezra 2:46: Alt Hb tradition reads Shamlai’s

d. Ezra 2:50: Alt Hb tradition reads Meinim’s

e. Ezra 2:50: Alt Hb tradition reads Nephisim’s

Cross references:

A. Ezra 2:1: Nehemiah 7:6-73

B. Ezra 2:1: 2 Chronicles 36:17-20

C. Ezra 2:2: 1 Chronicles 3:19; Ezra 3:2; Haggai 1:1

D. Ezra 2:2: Haggai 1:1

E. Ezra 2:2: Nehemiah 12:1

F. Ezra 2:3: Ezra 8:3; Ezra 10:25; Nehemiah 3:25

G. Ezra 2:13: Ezra 8:13

H. Ezra 2:21: Matthew 2:1; Matthew 2:6

I. Ezra 2:26: Jeremiah 31:15; Matthew 2:18

J. Ezra 2:28: Genesis 12:8; Joshua 7:2; Joshua 8:9

K. Ezra 2:34: Joshua 4:19; Joshua 5:13; Joshua 6:1-25

L. Ezra 2:41: 1 Chronicles 25:1; 2 Chronicles 5:12; 2 Chronicles 35:15

M. Ezra 2:42: 1 Chronicles 9:17-32; Nehemiah 12:25-26

N. Ezra 2:43: Ezra 8:20

O. Ezra 2:55: Nehemiah 11:3