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Ezra 10:23

Of Levites there were Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah and Eliezer.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Amorites;   Church;   Decision;   Eliezer;   Jebusites;   Jozabad;   Judah;   Kelaiah;   Levites;   Minister, Christian;   Pethahiah;   Shimei;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Awakenings, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Eliezer;   Pethahiah;   Shimei;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Eliezer;   Judah;   Kelaiah;   Pethahiah;   Shimei;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Eliezer;   Ezra, Book of;   Jozabad;   Judah;   Kelaiah;   Kelita;   Pethahiah;   Shimei;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Addan;   Ezra;   Ezra, Book of;   Jonas;   Jozabad;   Jozabdus;   Judah;   Judas;   Kelaiah;   Patheus;   Pethahiah;   Priests and Levites;   Semeis;   Shimei, Shimeites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eliezer ;   Jozabad ;   Judah ;   Kelaiah, Kelita ;   Pethahiah ;   Shimei ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Elie'zar;   Kela'iah;   Kel'ita;   Pethahi'ah;   Shim'ei;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Calitas;   Eliezer;   Jonas (1);   Josabdus;   Jozabad;   Kelaiah;   Patheus;   Pethahiah;   Priests and Levites;   Semeis;   Shimei;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Calitas;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Shimei;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Levites:
Hebrew Names Version
Of the Levites: Yozavad, and Shim`i, and Kelayah (the same is Kelita), Petachyah, Yehudah, and Eli`ezer.
King James Version
Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
English Standard Version
Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
New Century Version
Among the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
New English Translation
From the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also known as Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Amplified Bible
Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah, that is, Kelita, Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
New American Standard Bible
Of the Levites there were Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
World English Bible
Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And of the Leuites, Iozabad and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (which is Kelitah) Pethahiah, Iudah and Eliezer.
Berean Standard Bible
Among the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Contemporary English Version
Those Levites who had foreign wives were: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also known as Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Complete Jewish Bible
Of the L'vi'im: Yozavad, Shim‘i, K'layah (also known as K'lita), P'tachyah, Y'hudah and Eli‘ezer.
Darby Translation
And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Easy-to-Read Version
Among the Levites, these are the men who married foreign women: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
George Lamsa Translation
Of the Levites, Jozabar, Shimei, Kelnah, Kelita, Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Good News Translation
Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer
Lexham English Bible
From the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Literal Translation
Also from the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (he was Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Amonge the Leuites, Iosabad, Simei and Celaia, He is that Celita, Pethahia, Iuda & Eleasar.
American Standard Version
And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Bible in Basic English
And of the Levites, Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (that is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Among the Leuites: Iosabad, Semei, and Celaia (whiche same is Celitah) Phathaiah, Iuda, and Eliezer.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah--the same is Kelita--Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
King James Version (1611)
Also of the Leuites: Iozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelitah) Pethahiah, Iudah, and Eliezer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And of the Levites; Jozabad, and Samu, and Colia (he is Colitas,)and Phetheia, and Judas, and Eliezer.
English Revised Version
And of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And of the sones of dekenes; Josabeth, and Semey, and Elaie; he is Calithaphataie; Juda, and Elezer.
Update Bible Version
And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Webster's Bible Translation
Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same [is] Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
New King James Version
Also of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
New Living Translation
These are the Levites who were guilty: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
New Life Bible
Of the Levites there were Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
New Revised Standard
Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, of the Levites, Jozabad and Shimei, and Kelaiah, the same, is Kelita, Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And of the sons of the Levites, Jozabed, and Semei, and Celaia, the same is Calita, Phataia, Juda, and Eliezer.
Revised Standard Version
Of the Levites: Jo'zabad, Shim'e-i, Kelai'ah (that is, Keli'ta), Petha-hi'ah, Judah, and Elie'zer.
Young's Literal Translation
And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah -- he [is] Kelita, -- Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
THE MESSAGE
From the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah—that is, Kelita—Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Of Levites there were Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah and Eliezer.

Contextual Overview

15However, Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood against this, with Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helping them. 16But the exiles did so. And Ezra the priest separated out men who were heads of fathers' households for each of their father's households, all of them by name. So they convened on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter. 17And they completed investigating all the men who had married foreign wives by the first day of the first month. 18Among 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. 19They gave their hand in pledge to put away their wives, and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt. 20Of the sons of Immer there were Hanani and Zebadiah; 21and of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel and Uzziah; 22and of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad and Elasah. 23Of Levites there were Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah and Eliezer. 24Of the singers there was Eliashib; and of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem and Uri.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jozabad: Ezra 8:33, Nehemiah 11:16

Kelita: Nehemiah 10:10

Reciprocal: Ezra 10:25 - Moreover of Israel Nehemiah 8:7 - Kelita

Cross-References

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God, and turning away from evil.
Jeremiah 25:20
and all the foreign people, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod),

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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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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