Ezra 8:1
And these are the heads of their families, the leaders that went up with me in the reign of Artaxerxes the king of Babylon.
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In Context
2Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 9:1And this is all Israel, even their enrollment: and these are written down in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, with the names of them that were carried away to Babylon for their transgressions.
1 Chronicles 24:31And they also received lots as their brethren the sons of Aaron before the king; Zadok also, and Ahimelech, and the chiefs of the families of the priests and of the Levites, principal heads of families, even as their younger brethren.
2 Chronicles 26:12The whole number of the chiefs of families of the mighty men of war was two thousand six hundred;
Ezra 2:2who came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the people of Israel:
Ezra 2:62These sought their genealogy as though they had been reckoned, but they were not found; and they were removed, as polluted, from the priesthood.
Ezra 7:7And some of the children of Israel went up, and some of the priests, and of the Levites, and the singers, and the doorkeepers, and the Nathinim, 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 →