Ezra 8:7
And of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah; the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
In Context
6And of the sons of Adin, Ebed, the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.
8And of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah, the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.
Cross References
Ezra 2:7The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.
Ezra 10:2And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question.
Nehemiah 7:34The children of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.
Matthew Henry on Ezra 8:2-21
The Journey of Ezra and Others. ( b. c. 457.) 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. 2 Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush. 3 Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males a hundred and fifty. 4 Of the sons of Pahath-moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred… Read the whole commentary →