Here is a list of the family leaders and the genealogies of those who came with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
Parallel translations
- WEB Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
- KJV These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
- BSB These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
- NKJV These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of King Artaxerxes:
- NASB Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households and the genealogical enrollment of those who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of King Artaxerxes:
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Quick answer
Ezra records the family heads who returned with him from Babylon under Artaxerxes. God remembers and names those who answer His call.
Overview
This verse opens a register of the clan leaders who joined Ezra's journey, written in his own first-person voice. Such lists, though detailed, show that God values each individual and household who responds to His work. The careful record honors the faith of those willing to leave Babylon and return to serve God in Jerusalem.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ezra 7:7Some of the children of Israel, including some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the porters, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
- 2 Chr 26:12The whole number of the heads of fathers’ households, even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand six hundred.
- 1 Chr 9:1So all Israel were listed by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their disobedience.
- Neh 7:70–71Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests’ garments.
- 1 Chr 26:32His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers’ households, whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.
- 1 Chr 9:34These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men. These lived at Jerusalem.
- Ezra 7:13I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.
- Ezra 2:62These sought their place among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
- 1 Chr 4:33and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy.
- Ezra 1:5Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.
- 1 Chr 24:31These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ households of the chief even as those of his younger brother.
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The return from exile and the rebuilt altar keep alive the hope of a greater restoration — the true return from our deeper exile of sin accomplished by Christ.
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