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Brenton's Septuagint

Nehemiah 7:12

The children of Ælam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Elam;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Elam;   Ezra, the Book of;   Hananiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Nehemiah;   Zerubbabel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acud;   Ammidioi;   Elam;   Ezra, Book of;   Hagab;   Kilan;   Nehemiah;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elam ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - E'lam;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elam;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Captivity;   Ezra, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Elam’s descendants 1,254
Hebrew Names Version
The children of `Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
King James Version
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
English Standard Version
The sons of Elam, 1,254.
New Century Version
the descendants of Elam—1,254;
New English Translation
the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
Amplified Bible
the sons of Elam, 1,254;
New American Standard Bible
the sons of Elam, 1,254;
World English Bible
The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The sonnes of Elam, a thousand, two hundreth fiftie and foure.
Legacy Standard Bible
the sons of Elam, 1,254;
Berean Standard Bible
the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
Easy-to-Read Version
the descendants of Elam 1254
George Lamsa Translation
The descendants of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
Good News Translation
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Lexham English Bible
The descendants of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
Literal Translation
The sons of Elam were a thousand, two hundred and fifty four.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the childron of Elam, a thousande, two hundreth, and foure and fyftye:
American Standard Version
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Bible in Basic English
The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fiftie and foure.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
King James Version (1611)
The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred, fiftie and foure.
English Revised Version
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the sones of Helam, a thousynde eiyte hundrid and foure and fifti;
Update Bible Version
The sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Webster's Bible Translation
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty four.
New King James Version
the sons of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;
New Living Translation
The family of Elam 1,254
New Life Bible
1,254 sons of Elam,
New Revised Standard
Of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The sons of Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
Young's Literal Translation
Sons of Elam: a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the sons of Elam, 1,254;

Contextual Overview

5 And God put it into my heart, and I gathered the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, into companies: and I found a register of the company that came up first, and I found written in it as follows: 6 Now these are the children of the country, that came up from captivity, of the number which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon carried away, and they returned to Jerusalem and to Juda, every man to his city; 7 with Zorobabel, and Jesus, and Neemia, Azaria, and Reelma, Naemani, Mardochaeus, Balsan, Maspharath, Esdra, Boguia, Inaum, Baana, Masphar, men of the people of Israel. 8 The children of Phoros, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two. 9 The children of Saphatia, three hundred and seventy-two. 10 The children of Era, six hundred and fifty-two. 11 The children of Phaath Moab, with the children of Jesus and Joab, two thousand six hundred and eighteen. 12 The children of Ælam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four. 13 The children of Zathuia, eight hundred and forty-five. 14 The children of Zacchu, seven hundred and sixty.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Elam: Ezra 2:7, Ezra 8:7, Ezra 10:26

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 7:34 - the other Elam

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
For yet seven days having passed I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth.
Genesis 7:17
And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the earth.
Exodus 24:18
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up to the mountain, and was there in the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
when I went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant, which the Lord made with you, and I was in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water.
Deuteronomy 9:18
And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which ye sinned in doing evil before the Lord God to provoke him.
Deuteronomy 10:10
And I remained in the mount forty days and forty nights: and the Lord heard me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to mount Choreb.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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