'Men' in the Bible

Let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.”

They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.The number of the Israelite men included:

Netophah’s men56

Anathoth’s men128

Michmas’s men122

Bethel’s and Ai’s men223

This is the text of the letter they sent to him:To King Artaxerxes from your servants, the men from the region west of the Euphrates River:

Therefore, issue an order for these men to stop, so that this city will not be rebuilt until a further decree has been pronounced by me.

But God was watching over the Jewish elders. These men wouldn’t stop them until a report was sent to Darius, so that they could receive written instructions about this matter.

I hereby issue a decree concerning what you must do, so that the elders of the Jews can rebuild the house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men out of the royal revenues from the taxes of the region west of the Euphrates River, so that the work will not stop.

who was of Shecaniah’s descendants;Zechariah, from Parosh’s descendants,and 150 men with him who were registered by genealogy;

Eliehoenai son of Zerahiahfrom Pahath-moab’s descendants,and 200 men with him;

Shecaniah son of Jahazielfrom Zattu’s descendants,and 300 men with him;

Ebed son of Jonathanfrom Adin’s descendants,and 50 men with him;

Jeshaiah son of Athaliahfrom Elam’s descendants,and 70 men with him;

Zebadiah son of Michaelfrom Shephatiah’s descendants,and 80 men with him;

Obadiah son of Jehielfrom Joab’s descendants,and 218 men with him;

Shelomith son of Josiphiahfrom Bani’s descendants,and 160 men with him;

Zechariah son of Bebaifrom Bebai’s descendants,and 28 men with him;

Johanan son of Hakkatanfrom Azgad’s descendants,and 110 men with him;

these are the last ones, from Adonikam’s descendants,and their names are:Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah,and 60 men with them;

Uthai and Zaccurfrom Bigvai’s descendants,and 70 men with them.

Since the gracious hand of our God was on us, they brought us Sherebiah—a man of insight from the descendants of Mahli, a descendant of Levi son of Israel—along with his sons and brothers, 18 men,

plus Hashabiah, along with Jeshaiah, from the descendants of Merari, and his brothers and their sons, 20 men.

While Ezra prayed and confessed, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, an extremely large assembly of Israelite men, women, and children gathered around him. The people also wept bitterly.

So all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered in Jerusalem within the three days. On the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.

The exiles did what had been proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family leaders, all identified by name, to represent their ancestral houses. They convened on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter,

and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.