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Hebrew Names Version

Ezra 10:18

Among the sons of the Kohanim there were found who had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Yeshua, the son of Yotzadak, and his brothers, Ma`aseyah, and Eli`ezer, and Yariv, and Gedalyahu.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Amorites;   Church;   Decision;   Eliezer;   Gedaliah;   Jarib;   Jebusites;   Jehozadak;   Maaseiah;   Minister, Christian;   Priest;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Awakenings, Religious;   Jehozadak;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gedaliah;   Joshua the son of jehozadak;   Malachi;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Divorce;   Eliezer;   Jarib;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Eliezer;   Gedaliah;   Giants;   Jarib;   Jozadak;   Maaseiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Eliezer;   Ezra, Book of;   Gedaliah;   Jarib;   Jeshua;   Maaseiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Addan;   Eleazar;   Eliezer;   Ezra;   Ezra, Book of;   Gedaliah;   Jarib;   Jehozadak;   Joadanus;   Joribus;   Maaseiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abijah ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eliezer ;   Gedaliah ;   Jarib ;   Jeshua, Jeshuah ;   Josedech ;   Maaseiah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Elie'zar;   Ja'rib;   Joz'adak;   Ma-Ase'iah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eliezer;   Gedaliah;   Jarib;   Jehozadak;   Jeshua;   Joadanus;   Joribus;   Maaseiah;   Mathelas;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The following were found to have married foreign women from the descendants of the priests:
King James Version
And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
English Standard Version
Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers.
New Century Version
These are the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women: From the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and Jeshua's brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
New English Translation
It was determined that from the descendants of the priests, the following had taken foreign wives: from the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Amplified Bible
Now among the sons of the priests who had married foreign women were found: of the sons of Jeshua [the high priest] the son of Jozadak, and his brothers—Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
New American Standard Bible
Now among the sons of the priests who had married foreign wives were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
World English Bible
Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And of the sonnes of the Priests there were men founde, that had taken strange wiues, to wit, of the sonnes of Ieshua, the sonne of Iozadak, & of his brethren, Maaseiah, Aeliezer, and Iarib and Gedaliah.
Legacy Standard Bible
Among the sons of the priests who had married foreign wives were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah.
Berean Standard Bible
Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Contemporary English Version
Here is a list of the priests who had agreed to divorce their foreign wives and to sacrifice a ram as a sin offering: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah from the family of Joshua son of Jozadak and his brothers;
Complete Jewish Bible
Among the cohanim were found these who had married foreign women: of the sons of Yeshua the son of Yotzadak and his brothers: Ma‘aseiyah, Eli‘ezer, Yariv and G'dalyah.
Darby Translation
And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken foreign wives, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren: Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Easy-to-Read Version
These are the names of the descendants of the priests who married foreign women: From the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and Jeshua's brothers, these men: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
George Lamsa Translation
And among the descendants of the priests there were found some who had taken foreign wives, namely, of the sons of Joshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers, Maasiah and Eleazer and Jonadab and Gedaliah.
Good News Translation
This is the list of the men who had foreign wives: Clan of Joshua and his brothers, sons of Jehozadak: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Lexham English Bible
There was found from the sons of the priests those who had married foreign women, from the sons of Jeshua son of Jehozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Literal Translation
And among the sons of the priests, these were found who had dwelt with foreign women: From the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And amoge the childre of the prestes there were men founde yt had take straunge wyues, namely amoge the children of Iesua the sonne of Iosedec & of his brethre, Maeseia, Elieser, Iarib and Godolia.
American Standard Version
And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women: namely, of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Bible in Basic English
And among the sons of the priests who were married to strange women were these: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak and his brothers, Maaseiah and Eliezer and Jarib and Gedaliah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And among the children of the priestes there were men found that had taken straunge wiues, namely among the children of Iesua, the sonne of Iosedec, and of his brethren, Maasia, and Eliezer, Iarib, and Gedalia.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women, namely: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
King James Version (1611)
And among the sonnes of the Priestes, there were found that had taken strange wiues: namely, of the sons of Ieshua the sonne of Iozadak, and his brethren, Maasiah, and Eliezer, and Iarib, and Gedaliah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there were found some of the sons of the priests who had taken strange wives: of the sons of Jesus the son of Josedec, and his brethren; Maasia, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gadalia.
English Revised Version
And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married strange women: namely, of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And there weren foundun of the sones of preestis, that weddiden `wyues aliens; of the sones of Josue, the sone of Josedech, and hise britheren, Maasie, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Godolie.
Update Bible Version
And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Webster's Bible Translation
And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken foreign wives: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
New King James Version
And among the sons of the priests who had taken pagan wives the following were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, 1 Chronicles 6:14">[fn] and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
New Living Translation
These are the priests who had married pagan wives: From the family of Jeshua son of Jehozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
New Life Bible
Of the sons of the religious leaders who had married strange wives were found the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
New Revised Standard
There were found of the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women, of the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now there were found, of the sons of the priests, who had married foreign women, - of the sons of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were found among the sons of the priests that had taken strange wives: Of the sons of Josue the son of Josedec, and his brethren, Maasia, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Godolia.
Revised Standard Version
Of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women were found Ma-asei'ah, Elie'zer, Jarib, and Gedali'ah, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jo'zadak and his brethren.
Young's Literal Translation
And there are found of the sons of the priests that have settled strange women: of the sons of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah;
THE MESSAGE
Among the families of priests, the following were found to have married foreign wives: The family of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. They all promised to divorce their wives and sealed it with a handshake. For their guilt they brought a ram from the flock as a Compensation-Offering.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Among the sons of the priests who had married foreign wives were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah.

Contextual Overview

15 Only Yonatan the son of `Asa'el and Yachzeyah the son of Tikvah stood up against this [matter]: and Meshullam and Shabbetai the Levite helped them. 16 The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the Kohen, [with] certain heads of fathers' [houses], after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. 17 They made an end with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month. 18 Among the sons of the Kohanim there were found who had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Yeshua, the son of Yotzadak, and his brothers, Ma`aseyah, and Eli`ezer, and Yariv, and Gedalyahu. 19 They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt. 20 Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zevadyah. 21 Of the sons of Harim: Ma`aseyah, and Eliyah, and Shemayah, and Yechi'el, and `Uzziyah. 22 Of the sons of Pashchur: Elyo`enai, Ma`aseyah, Yishma'el, Netan'el, Yozavad, and El`asah. 23 Of the Levites: Yozavad, and Shim`i, and Kelayah (the same is Kelita), Petachyah, Yehudah, and Eli`ezer. 24 Of the singers: Elyashiv. Of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the sons: Ezra 9:1, Leviticus 21:7, Leviticus 21:13-15, 1 Samuel 2:22-24, Nehemiah 13:28, Jeremiah 23:11, Jeremiah 23:14, Ezekiel 44:22, Malachi 2:8, Malachi 2:9, 1 Timothy 3:11

Jeshua: Ezra 2:2, Ezra 3:2, Ezra 5:2, 1 Chronicles 6:14, 1 Chronicles 6:15, Nehemiah 12:10, Haggai 1:1, Zechariah 3:1, Joshua

Maaseiah: Nehemiah 8:4, Nehemiah 8:7

Reciprocal: Leviticus 16:6 - for himself Ezra 9:2 - taken of their Ezra 10:13 - the people Ezra 10:25 - Moreover of Israel Malachi 2:12 - the master and the scholar

Cross-References

Genesis 10:16
the Yevusi, the Amori, the Girgashi,
Genesis 10:17
the Hivvi, the `Arki, the Sini,
Numbers 34:8
from Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamat; and the goings out of the border shall be at Tzedad;
Joshua 18:22
and Beit-Ha`aravah, and Tzemaryim, and Beit-El,
2 Samuel 8:9
When To`i king of Hamat heard that David had struck all the host of Hadad`ezer,
2 Kings 17:24
The king of Ashshur brought men from Bavel, and from Kutah, and from Avva, and from Hamat and Sefarvayim, and placed them in the cities of Shomron instead of the children of Yisra'el; and they possessed Shomron, and lived in the cities of it.
2 Kings 17:30
The men of Bavel made Sukkot-Benot, and the men of Kut made Nergal, and the men of Hamat made Ashima,
2 Chronicles 13:4
Aviyah stood up on Mount Tzemaryim, which is in the hill-country of Efrayim, and said, Hear me, Yarov`am and all Yisra'el:
Isaiah 10:9
Isn't Kalno as Karkemish? Isn't Hamat as Arpad? Isn't Shomron as Dammesek?
Ezekiel 27:8
The inhabitants of Tzidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tzor, were in you, they were your pilots.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives,.... So that it need not be wondered at that this evil should spread among the people, when those who understood the law, and should have instructed the people in it, set such an example: namely,

of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak; who was the high priest; and perhaps for this fault of his, in not restraining his sons from such unlawful marriages, is he represented in filthy garments, Zechariah 3:3,

and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah; these were the brethren of Jeshua.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare with the list in Ezra 2:0.

Ezra 10:19

They gave their hands - i. e., “solemnly pledged themselves” (compare the marginal references).

Ezra 10:44

The guilty persons, it would seem, were 113 in number. They comprised 4 members of the high priest’s family, 13 other priests, 10 Levites, and 86 lay Israelites belonging to at least 10 distinct families. The fact noted in the second clause of the verse must have increased the difficulity of Ezra’s task.


 
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