Ezra 2

List of Families Ezra 2:3–35

³Verse 3. The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two. ⁴Verse 4. The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two. ⁵Verse 5. The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five. ⁶Verse 6. The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve. ⁷Verse 7. The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. ⁸Verse 8. The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five.

⁹Verse 9. The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty. ¹⁰Verse 10. The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two. ¹¹Verse 11. The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three. ¹²Verse 12. The children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two. ¹³Verse 13. The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six. ¹⁴Verse 14. The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six.

¹⁵Verse 15. The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four. ¹⁶Verse 16. The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. ¹⁷Verse 17. The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three. ¹⁸Verse 18. The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve. ¹⁹Verse 19. The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty-three. ²⁰Verse 20. The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.

²¹Verse 21. The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three. ²²Verse 22. The men of Netophah, fifty-six. ²³Verse 23. The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight. ²⁴Verse 24. The children of Azmaveth, forty-two. ²⁵Verse 25. The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three. ²⁶Verse 26. The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.

²⁷Verse 27. The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two. ²⁸Verse 28. The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three. ²⁹Verse 29. The children of Nebo, fifty-two. ³⁰Verse 30. The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six. ³¹Verse 31. The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. ³²Verse 32. The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.

³³Verse 33. The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five. ³⁴Verse 34. The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five. ³⁵Verse 35. The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty.

Priests and Levites Ezra 2:36–42

³⁶Verse 36. The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three. ³⁷Verse 37. The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two. ³⁸Verse 38. The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven. ³⁹Verse 39. The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen. ⁴⁰Verse 40. The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four. ⁴¹Verse 41. The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.

⁴²Verse 42. The children of the gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.

Temple Servants and Others Ezra 2:43–58

⁴³Verse 43. The temple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth, ⁴⁴Verse 44. the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon, ⁴⁵Verse 45. the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub, ⁴⁶Verse 46. the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan, ⁴⁷Verse 47. the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah, ⁴⁸Verse 48. the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,

⁴⁹Verse 49. the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai, ⁵⁰Verse 50. the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim, ⁵¹Verse 51. the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, ⁵²Verse 52. the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, ⁵³Verse 53. the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah, ⁵⁴Verse 54. the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

⁵⁵Verse 55. The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda, ⁵⁶Verse 56. the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, ⁵⁷Verse 57. the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Ami. ⁵⁸Verse 58. All the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.

Genealogical Challenges Ezra 2:59–63

⁵⁹Verse 59. These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, and their offspring, whether they were of Israel: ⁶⁰Verse 60. the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two. ⁶¹Verse 61. Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, and the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name. ⁶²Verse 62. These 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.

⁶³Verse 63. The governor told them that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to serve with Urim and with Thummim.

Summary of Return and Offerings Ezra 2:64–70

⁶⁴Verse 64. The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty, ⁶⁵Verse 65. besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women. ⁶⁶Verse 66. Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five; ⁶⁷Verse 67. their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty. ⁶⁸Verse 68. Some of the heads of fathers’ households, when they came to Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for God’s house to set it up in its place. ⁶⁹Verse 69. They gave according to their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.

⁷⁰Verse 70. So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.