New International VersionFrom the descendants of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Kelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui and Manasseh.
New Living TranslationFrom the family of Pahath-moab: Adna, Kelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
English Standard VersionOf the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
Berean Standard BibleFrom the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
King James BibleAnd of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
New King James Versionof the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;
New American Standard Bibleand of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;
NASB 1995and of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui and Manasseh;
NASB 1977and of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;
Legacy Standard Bibleand of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui and Manasseh;
Amplified Bibleand of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;
Christian Standard BiblePahath-moab’s descendants: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;
Holman Christian Standard BiblePahath-moab’s descendants: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;
American Standard VersionAnd of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
Contemporary English VersionAdna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh from the family of Pahath Moab;
English Revised VersionAnd of the sons of Pahath-moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
GOD'S WORD® TranslationFrom the descendants of Pahath Moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh
Good News TranslationClan of Pahath Moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh
International Standard VersionFrom Pahath-moab's descendants: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
NET BibleFrom the descendants of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Kelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
New Heart English BibleOf the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
Webster's Bible TranslationAnd of the sons of Pahath-moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh. Majority Text Translations Majority Standard BibleFrom the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
World English BibleOf the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd of the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
Young's Literal Translation And of the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
Smith's Literal TranslationAnd from the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd of the sons of Phahath, Moab, Edna, and Chalal, Banaias, and Maasias, Mathanias, Beseleel, Bennui, and Manasse.
Catholic Public Domain VersionAnd from the sons of Pahath-moab, Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, and Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
New American Bibleof the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh;
New Revised Standard VersionOf the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd of the sons of Shultan-moab, Gedaliah, Celal, Benaniah, Maasiah, Mattaniah, Bezaliel, and his sons, descendants of Manasseh.
Peshitta Holy Bible TranslatedAnd from the sons of Shultan: Moab, Gedalia, Kelal, Benayah, Massia, Methanya, Betsalieil and his sons, the sons of Manasheh. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
Brenton Septuagint TranslationAnd of the sons of Phaath Moab; Edne, and Chalel, and Banaia, Maasia, Matthania, Beseleel, and Banui, and Manasse.
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Context Those Guilty of Intermarriage… 29From the descendants of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth. 30From the descendantsof Pahath-moab:Adna,Chelal,Benaiah,Maaseiah,Mattaniah,Bezalel,Binnui,and Manasseh.31From the descendants of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,…
Cross References Nehemiah 13:23-27In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. / Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah. / I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves! ...
Deuteronomy 7:3-4Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, / because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.
1 Kings 11:1-2King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. / These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
Malachi 2:11Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
2 Corinthians 6:14-17Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? / What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? / What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” ...
Exodus 34:15-16Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices. / And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.
1 Corinthians 7:12-14To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. / And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. / For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
Judges 3:5-6Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. / And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
1 Kings 16:31And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.
Nehemiah 10:30We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.
1 Corinthians 5:9-11I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. / I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. / But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
Joshua 23:12-13For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, / know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
2 Kings 17:33-34They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away. / To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
2 Chronicles 19:2Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.
Matthew 19:4-6Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ / and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? / So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
Treasury of Scripture And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh. Pahath-moab Ezra 2:6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshuaand Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve. Ezra 8:4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males. Nehemiah 7:11 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundredand eighteen. Jump to Previous AdnaBenaiahBenai'ahBezaleelBezalelBez'alelBinnuiBin'nuiChildrenDescendantsMaaseiahMa-Asei'ahManassehManas'sehMattaniahMattani'ahPahathmoabPahath-MoabPa'hath-Mo'abJump to Next AdnaBenaiahBenai'ahBezaleelBezalelBez'alelBinnuiBin'nuiChildrenDescendantsMaaseiahMa-Asei'ahManassehManas'sehMattaniahMattani'ahPahathmoabPahath-MoabPa'hath-Mo'abEzra 10 1.Ezra encouraged to reform the strange marriages6.Ezra assembles the people9.The people repent, and promise amendment15.The care to perform it18.The names of them which had married strange wivesFrom the descendants of Pahath-moab:The Pahath-moab family is one of the prominent priestly families that returned from the Babylonian exile. The name "Pahath-moab" means "governor of Moab," indicating a possible historical connection to the region of Moab, east of the Dead Sea. This family is mentioned in the context of the returnees who were committed to restoring the covenant with God, emphasizing the importance of lineage and heritage in post-exilic Israel. Adna: Adna is listed among those who had taken foreign wives, which was against the Mosaic Law. The name Adna means "pleasure" or "delight." This highlights the personal and communal struggle to adhere to the covenant, as intermarriage with foreign nations often led to idolatry and a departure from God's commands. Chelal: Chelal is another individual who had married a foreign woman. The name Chelal means "completion" or "perfection." This reflects the ongoing process of purification and restoration that the community was undergoing, striving for spiritual completeness by adhering to the Law. Benaiah: Benaiah, meaning "Yahweh has built," is a name that appears frequently in the Old Testament, often associated with valiant warriors or faithful servants. This underscores the call for spiritual strength and faithfulness in the face of cultural and religious challenges. Maaseiah: Maaseiah, meaning "work of Yahweh," is a common name in the Bible, often associated with priests or Levites. This highlights the role of religious leaders in guiding the community back to faithfulness and the importance of divine intervention in the restoration process. Mattaniah: Mattaniah, meaning "gift of Yahweh," signifies the grace and provision of God in the lives of His people. This name serves as a reminder of the blessings that come from obedience and the importance of dedicating one's life to God's service. Bezalel: Bezalel, meaning "in the shadow of God," is a name that evokes the protection and guidance of the Almighty. In the context of Ezra, it emphasizes the need for divine oversight and wisdom as the community seeks to align itself with God's will. Binnui: Binnui, meaning "built up," reflects the theme of rebuilding and restoration that is central to the book of Ezra. This name underscores the physical and spiritual reconstruction of Jerusalem and the temple, as well as the reestablishment of the covenant community. Manasseh: Manasseh, meaning "causing to forget," is a name that carries historical weight, as it is associated with one of the tribes of Israel. This name may symbolize the hope of moving past the sins of the past and embracing a renewed commitment to God. It also serves as a reminder of the need for repentance and the possibility of redemption. Persons / Places / Events 1. Pahath-moabA family or clan within the tribe of Judah, known for returning from the Babylonian exile. The name suggests a connection to Moab, possibly indicating ancestral ties or geographical origins. 2. Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, ManassehThese are individuals from the family of Pahath-moab who were identified as having married foreign women, which was against the covenantal laws of Israel at the time. 3. The Event of RepentanceThis chapter describes a significant event where the Israelites, under Ezra's leadership, repented for intermarrying with foreign women, which was seen as a violation of their covenant with God. Teaching Points The Importance of Obedience to God's LawThe Israelites' decision to separate from foreign wives demonstrates the importance of adhering to God's commandments, even when it requires difficult personal sacrifices. Repentance and RestorationTrue repentance involves acknowledging wrongdoing and taking concrete steps to correct it. The actions of the Israelites in Ezra 10 serve as a model for genuine repentance. Community AccountabilityThe collective action taken by the Israelites under Ezra's leadership shows the importance of community accountability in maintaining spiritual integrity. Guarding Against Spiritual CompromiseThe marriages to foreign women represented a spiritual compromise that threatened the Israelites' covenant relationship with God. Believers today must be vigilant against influences that can lead them away from their faith. Lists and Questions Top 10 Lessons from Ezra 10
Ezra 10:10 - How is this command to divorce reconcileable with other biblical teachings that appear to disapprove of divorce?
Ezra 10:44 - How can a just God require separating from wives and children if some may have converted to the faith?
Ezra 10:15 - Why are only a few individuals mentioned as opposing this course of action, despite its obvious moral and social implications?
Why does Nehemiah 10:30 emphasize not intermarrying with neighboring peoples, when other passages (e.g., the Book of Ruth) show positive outcomes from such unions?
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Hebrew From the descendantsוּמִבְּנֵ֛י(ū·mib·bə·nê)Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 1121:A sonofפַּחַ֥ת(pa·ḥaṯ)0 Strong's HebrewPahath-moab:מוֹאָ֖ב(mō·w·’āḇ)Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 6355:Pahath-moab -- a postexilic nameAdna,עַדְנָ֣א(‘aḏ·nā)Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 5733:Adna -- two IsraelitesChelal,וּכְלָ֑ל(ū·ḵə·lāl)Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3636:Chelal -- an IsraeliteBenaiah,בְּנָיָ֤ה(bə·nā·yāh)Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 1141:Benaiah -- 'Yah has built up', the name of several IsraelitesMaaseiah,מַעֲשֵׂיָה֙(ma·‘ă·śê·yāh)Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 4641:Maaseiah -- 'work of Yah', the name of a number of IsraelitesMattaniah,מַתַּנְיָ֣ה(mat·tan·yāh)Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 4983:Mattaniah -- 'gift of Yah', the last king of Judah, also a number of IsraelitesBezalel,בְצַלְאֵ֔ל(ḇə·ṣal·’êl)Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 1212:Bezalel -- 'in the shadow (protection) of El', two IsraelitesBinnui,וּבִנּ֖וּי(ū·ḇin·nui)Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 1131:Binnui -- 'his son', an Israeliteand Manasseh.וּמְנַשֶּֽׁה׃(ū·mə·naš·šeh)Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 4519:Manasseh -- 'causing to forget', a son of Joseph, also a king of Judah, also two Israelites
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