Bible Strands
Ezra 10:30
From the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Ezra records a list of Israelite men who had married foreign women, specifically naming eight individuals from the clan of Pahath-moab. This documentation occurs during the post-exilic community's covenant renewal and purification efforts.
The words — The Hebrew phrase וּ/מִ/בְּנֵ֛י (u./mi./be.Nei) translates literally as "and of the sons of," serving as a genealogical heading. It directly introduces the names Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh as clan members.
The thread — This family line appears in Ezra 2:6 and Nehemiah 7:11 with census totals of 2,812 and 2,818, and in Ezra 8:4 with Eliehoenai leading two hundred men. These passages track the same descendants across the initial return and subsequent community records.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to acknowledge that corporate covenant obedience rests on specific, named individuals. It asks for sober recognition of how abstract divine commands are executed through concrete human accountability.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And of the sons of Pahath–moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
Cross-references
- Ezra 2:6 the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,812;
- Ezra 8:4 from the descendants of Pahath-Moab, Eliehoenai son of Zerahiah, and with him 200 men;
- Nehemiah 7:11 the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,818;