Ezra 8:1
And so these are the leaders of the families, with their genealogy, of those who ascended with me from Babylon, during the reign of king Artaxerxes.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 9:1And so, all of Israel was numbered. And the sum of them was written in the book of the kings of Israel and of Judah. And they were taken away to Babylon because of their transgression.
1 Chronicles 24:31And they also cast lots concerning their brothers, the sons of Aaron, before David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the leaders of the priestly and Levitical families, as much concerning the elder as the younger. The lot divided all things equitably.
2 Chronicles 26:12And the entire number of the leaders, by the families of strong men, was two thousand six hundred.
Ezra 2:2They arrived with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
Ezra 2:62These sought the writing of their genealogy, and they did not find it, and so they were cast out of the priesthood.
Ezra 7:7And some from the sons of Israel, and from the sons of the priests, and from the sons of the Levites, and from the singing men, and from the gatekeepers, and from the temple servants ascended to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of king Artaxerxes.
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 →