From the family of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.
Parallel translations
- WEB Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.
- KJV And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.
- BSB From the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.
- NKJV of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Eliah;
- NASB and of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah;
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Quick answer
Six men from the family of Elam are named among the offenders. The roll of guilty Israelites continues.
Overview
The list proceeds through the families of Israel, here recording members of the house of Elam. The careful naming makes the corporate repentance specific and accountable rather than vague. Such honest documentation preserves a sober record of sin confronted and turned from within the covenant community.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ezra 10:2Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
- Ezra 8:7Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
- Ezra 2:31The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
- Ezra 2:7The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
- Neh 7:34The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
- Neh 7:12The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
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