See in Reader
12 KiB
Ezra 2
Ezra 2:1
General Information:
This begins a list of the names of people who returned from the exile.
went up
This is an idiom that refers to traveling toward Jerusalem. Alternate translation: "returned" or "came back" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom)
Ezra 2:2
Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah
These are men's names. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
This is the record
This refers to the list of men in 2:3-35.
Ezra 2:3
General Information:
This continues the list of the names of people who returned from the exile along with the number in each group. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Parosh
a man's name (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:4
Shephatiah
a man's name (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:5
Arah
a man's name (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:6
Pahath-Moab ... Jeshua
a man's name (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:7
General Information:
This continues the list of the names of people who returned from the exile along with the number in each group. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Ezra 2:8
Zattu
a man's name (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:9
Zakkai
a man's name (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:10
Bani
a man's name (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:11
General Information:
This continues the list of the names of people who returned from the exile along with the number in each group. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Bebai
a man's name (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:12
Azgad
These are men's names. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:13
Adonikam
a man's name (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:14
Bigvai
This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Ezra 2:2.
Ezra 2:15
General Information:
This continues the list of the names of people who returned from the exile along with the number in each group. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Adin
a man's name (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:16
Ater
a man's name (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
ninety-eight
"98" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Ezra 2:17
Bezai
a man's name (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:18
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:19
General Information:
This continues the list of people who returned from the exile along with the number in each group. Notice that staring in 2:21 these now are the names of places from where they originally came. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Hashum
a man's name (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:20
Gibbar
These are men's names. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
ninety-five
"95" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Ezra 2:21
The men of Bethlehem
This begins to list the number of people whose ancestors had lived in towns in Judah. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit)
Ezra 2:22
fifty-six
"56" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Netophah
This is the name of a town in Judah. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:23
General Information:
This continues the list people who returned from the exile along with the number in each group whose ancestors came from the places listed. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Anathoth
This is the name of a place. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:24
Azmaveth
This is the name of a place. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
forty-two
"42" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Ezra 2:25
Kiriath Arim ... Kephirah ... Beeroth
These are names of places. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:26
Geba
This is the name of a place. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:27
General Information:
This continues with the list of people who returned from the exile along with the number in each group whose ancestors came from the places listed. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Michmas
This is the name of a place. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:28
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:29
Nebo
This is the name of a place. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
fifty-two
"52" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Ezra 2:30
Magbish
This is the name of a place. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:31
General Information:
This continues with the list of people who returned from the exile along with the number in each group whose ancestors came from the places listed. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Ezra 2:32
Harim
This is the name of a place. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:33
Lod ... Hadid ... Ono
These are names of places. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:34
General Information:
This continues with the list of people who returned from the exile along with the number in each group whose ancestors came from the places listed. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Ezra 2:35
Senaah
This is the name of a place. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:36
General Information:
This section lists the names of priests whose descendants returned from the exile along with the number in each group. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Jedaiah
This is a man's name. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Jeshua
This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Ezra 2:6.
Ezra 2:37
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:38
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:39
Harim
The "Harim" in Ezra 2:32 is the name of a place, but here "Harim" is the name of a man.
Ezra 2:40
General Information:
This section lists the names of Levites whose descendants returned from the exile along with the number in each group. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names and rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Kadmiel ... Hodaviah
These are men's names. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
seventy-four
"74" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Ezra 2:41
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:42
Shallum ... Talmon, Akkub, Hatita, and Shobai
These are men's names. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
gatekeepers
those in charge of who goes through the gates of the temple
Ater
This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Ezra 2:16.
Ezra 2:43
General Information:
This section continues listing the names of Levites whose descendants returned from the exile.
Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth
These are men's names. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:44
Keros, Siaha, Padon
These are men's names. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:45
Lebanah, Hagabah
These are men's names. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Akkub
See how you translated this in Ezra 2:42.
Ezra 2:46
Hagab, Shalmai, and Hanan
These are men's names. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:47
General Information:
This section continues listing the names of Levites whose descendants returned from the exile. These are all names of men. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:48
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:49
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:50
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:51
General Information:
This section continues listing the names of Levites whose descendants returned from the exile. These are all names of men. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:52
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:53
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:54
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:55
General Information:
This section continues listing the names of Levites whose descendants returned from the exile. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:56
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:57
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:58
392 total descendants
"three hundred and ninety-two total descendants." This is the number of all the people in this group who came back from the exile. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Ezra 2:59
General Information:
This is a list of people who had returned to Israel from various Babylonian cities but could not prove their heritage. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers and rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:60
652 descendants
"six hundred and fifty-two descendants." (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda
These are men's names. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:61
Habaiah ... Hakkoz ... Barzillai
These are men's names. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names)
Ezra 2:62
their genealogical records
the records that told who their ancestors were
could not find them
"could not find their names in the records of the priests"
they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean
This can be translated in active form. The abstract noun "priesthood" can be translated as the verb "work as priests." Alternate translation: "the other priests treated them as if they were unclean and did not allow them to work as priests" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns)
unclean
not fit to be priests
Ezra 2:63
Urim and Thummim
two items like dice that the priests used to decide what God wanted them to do
Ezra 2:64
whole group
This means the whole group that returned back to the land of Judah from the exile.
42,360
"forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Ezra 2:65
their maidservants
"their female servants"
these were 7,337
"these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
two hundred
"200" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Ezra 2:66
General Information:
This is a list of the animals along with the numbers of each kind that returned with the people from the exile. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
Ezra 2:67
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:68
General Information:
This page has intentionally been left blank.
Ezra 2:69
sixty-one thousand ... five thousand ... one hundred
"61,000 ... 5,000 ... 100" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
gold darics
A "daric" was a small gold coin used by the Persian Empire. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-bmoney)
minas
A mina is a unit of weight. One mina equals 550 grams. Minas are normally linked with measuring silver. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-bweight)
tunics
garments worn next to the skin
Ezra 2:70
All the people in Israel were in their cities
Everyone went back to their home towns in Judea. Not everyone resettled in Jerusalem.