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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Contemporary English Version

Ezra 2:5

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Arah;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Arah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Zerubbabel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Addus;   Ammidioi;   Arah;   Ares;   Eneneus;   Ezra, Book of;   Kilan;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Ozias;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Arah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Apocrypha;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'rah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Arah;   Ares;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Genealogy;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Arah’s descendants 775
Hebrew Names Version
The children of Arach, seven hundred seventy-five.
King James Version
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
English Standard Version
The sons of Arah, 775.
New Century Version
the descendants of Arah—775;
New English Translation
the descendants of Arah: 775;
Amplified Bible
the sons of Arah, 775;
New American Standard Bible
the sons of Arah, 775;
World English Bible
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The sonnes of Arah, seuen hundreth, and seuentie and fiue:
Legacy Standard Bible
the sons of Arah, 775;
Berean Standard Bible
the descendants of Arah, 775;
Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
The children of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five.
Easy-to-Read Version
the descendants of Arah 775
George Lamsa Translation
The descendants of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five.
Good News Translation
Lexham English Bible
the descendants of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five;
Literal Translation
The sons of Arah, seven hundred and seventy five.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the children of Arath, seuen hundreth and fyue and seuentye:
American Standard Version
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
Bible in Basic English
The children of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The children of Arath, seuen hundred seuentie and fiue.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
King James Version (1611)
The children of Arah, seuen hundred, seuentie and fiue.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The children of Ares, seven hundred and seventy-five.
English Revised Version
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the sones of Area, seuene hundrid and fyue and seuenti;
Update Bible Version
The sons of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
Webster's Bible Translation
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
New King James Version
the people of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five;
New Living Translation
The family of Arah 775
New Life Bible
775 sons of Arah,
New Revised Standard
Of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The sons of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The children of Area, seven hundred seventy-five.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five.
Young's Literal Translation
Sons of Arah, seven hundred five and seventy.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the sons of Arah, 775;

Contextual Overview

1 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had captured many of the people of Judah and had taken them as prisoners to Babylonia. Now they were on their way back to Jerusalem and to their own towns everywhere in Judah. 2Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah were in charge of the ones who were coming back. And here is a list of how many returned from each family group: 2,172 from the family of Parosh; 372 from the family of Shephatiah; 775 from the family of Arah; 2,812 descendants of Jeshua and Joab from the family of Pahath Moab; 1,254 from the family of Elam; 945 from the family of Zattu; 760 from the family of Zaccai; 642 from the family of Bani; 623 from the family of Bebai; 1,222 from the family of Azgad; 666 from the family of Adonikam; 2,056 from the family of Bigvai; 454 from the family of Adin; 98 from the family of Ater, also known as Hezekiah; 323 from the family of Bezai; 112 from the family of Jorah; 223 from the family of Hashum; and 95 from the family of Gibbar. 21Here is how many people returned whose ancestors had come from the following towns: 123 from Bethlehem; 56 from Netophah; 128 from Anathoth; 42 from Azmaveth; 743 from Kiriatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth; 621 from Ramah and Geba; 122 from Michmas; 223 from Bethel and Ai; 52 from Nebo; 156 from Magbish; 1,254 from the other Elam; 320 from Harim; 725 from Lod, Hadid, and Ono; 345 from Jericho; and 3,630 from Senaah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Arah: Nehemiah 6:18, Nehemiah 7:10. 652

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God placed all kinds of beautiful trees and fruit trees in the garden. Two other trees were in the middle of the garden. One of the trees gave life—the other gave the power to know the difference between right and wrong.
Genesis 2:11
The first one is the Pishon River that flows through the land of Havilah,
Genesis 2:12
where pure gold, rare perfumes, and precious stones are found.
Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden, where they would have to work the ground from which the man had been made.
Genesis 4:2
Later she had another son and named him Abel. Abel became a sheep farmer, but Cain farmed the land.
Genesis 4:12
If you try to farm the land, it won't produce anything for you. From now on, you'll be without a home, and you'll spend the rest of your life wandering from place to place.
Job 5:10
God sends showers on earth and waters the fields.
Psalms 104:14
You let the earth produce grass for cattle, plants for our food,
Psalms 135:7
The Lord makes the clouds rise from far across the earth, and he makes lightning to go with the rain. Then from his secret place he sends out the wind.
Jeremiah 14:22
Idols can't send rain, and showers don't fall by themselves. Only you control the rain, so we put our trust in you, the Lord our God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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