1. Head of a family that returned with Zerub. (Ne 7:15 = Bani of Ezr 2:10). 2. A Levite (Ezr 8:33 [prob. = Bani of Ne 8:7 and Bunni of Ne 9:4], Ne 12:8). 3. A son of Pahath-moab (Ezr 10:30 = Balnuus of 1Es 9:31). 4. A son of Bani who had married a foreign wife (Ezr 10:38). There appears to be a confusion in some instances between the similar names Binnul, Bani, Bigvai.
On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the utensils were weighed out in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui.
and of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui and Manasseh;
Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, explained the law to the people while the people remained in their place.
Now on the Levites' platform stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani and Chenani, and they cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God.