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Ezra 8:10 Explained in Context

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Verse 10. And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.

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This verse records a Josiphiah descendant and 160 males from Shelomith

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  • Ezra 8:1–14

Read Ezra 8:1–14 together. This verse records a Josiphiah descendant and 160 males from Shelomith Read Ezra 8:1–14 as one complete Ezra thought unit: Ezra records the chief fathers, genealogies, and counted males who travel with him from Babylon during Artaxerxes's reign.

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This line performs one distinct documentary, narrative, list, prayer, or adjudicative step inside Ezra 8:1–14; isolating it would detach that step from the unit's Persian-period setting, source limits, human effects, and explicit ethical boundaries. Specifically, this verse records a Josiphiah descendant and 160 males from Shelomith

Read Ezra 8:1–14 together

Why these verses belong together: The heading and the sequence from Phinehas through Bigvai form the family-head register for Ezra's journey; verse 15 moves to the Ahava camp and the missing Levites.

Verse 1. 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.

Verse 2. Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.

Verse 3. Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.

Verse 4. Of the sons of Pahath-moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.

Verse 5. Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.

Verse 6. Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.

Verse 7. And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.

Verse 8. And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.

Verse 9. Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

Verse 10. And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.

Verse 11. And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.

Verse 12. And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.

Verse 13. And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.

Verse 14. Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.

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