Ezra 2:31
Hebrew Text— Ezra 2:31The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
Morphological data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Connection Network
Click a node to navigate. Drag to explore.
Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”
The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”
The children of Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;
It is a trespass offering. He is certainly guilty before Yahweh.”
Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.
After them, Zadok the son of Immer made repairs across from his own house. After him, Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate made repairs.
The children of the other Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.