Ezra 8:1
Now these are the heads of families who were listed of those who went up with me from Babylon, when Artaxerxes was king.
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2Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush;
Cross References
1 Chronicles 9:1So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin.
1 Chronicles 24:31Selection was made of these in the same way as of their brothers the sons of Aaron, David the king being present, with Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites; the families of the chief in the same way as those of his younger brother.
2 Chronicles 26:12The heads of families, the strong men of war, were two thousand, six hundred.
Ezra 2:2Who went with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah, The number of the men of the people of Israel:
Ezra 2:62They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen; so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.
Ezra 7:7And some of the children of Israel went up, with some of the priests and the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
Matthew Henry on Ezra 8:1
This chapter gives us a more particular narrative of Ezra's journey to Jerusalem, of which we had a general account in the foregoing chapter I. The company that went up with him, ver. 1-20 . II. The solemn fast which he kept with his company, to implore God's presence with them in this journey, ver. 21-23 . III. The care he took of the treasure he had with him, and the charge he gave concerning it to the priests, to whose custody he committed it, ver. 24-30 . IV. The care God took of him and his company in the… Read the whole commentary →