Ezra 2:19

Study note

Setting — The narrator records a census of the returning exiles, listing the descendants of Hashum alongside their count of 223 individuals.

The words — בְּנֵ֣י (be.Nei) translates literally as “descendants,” and חָשֻׁ֔ם (cha.Shum) identifies the patriarch of the listed family group.

The thread — The same family appears in Nehemiah 7:22 with a count of 328, and Ezra 10:33 lists seven named men from the descendants of Hashum who took foreign wives.

Why it lands — The text functions as a genealogical ledger entry that tracks a specific lineage across the return narrative and later reform records, requiring the reader to note both the numerical discrepancy and the later historical involvement of this family.

Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.