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Literal Standard Version

Ezra 10:23

And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (he [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.
Legacy Standard Bible
Of Levites there were Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah 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

15Only Jonathan son of Asahel, and Jahaziah son of Tikvah, stood against this, and Meshullam, and Shabbethai the Levite, helped them. 16And the sons of the expulsion do so, and Ezra the priest, [and] men, heads of the fathers, for the house of their fathers, are separated, even all of them by name, and they sit on the first day of the tenth month, to examine the matter; 17and they finish with all the men who have settled strange women to the first day of the first month. 18And there are found of the sons of the priests that have settled strange women: of the sons of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah; 19and they give their hand to send out their wives, and being guilty, a ram of the flock for their guilt. 20And of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah; 21and of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah; 22and of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah. 23And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (he [is] Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.24And of the singers: Eliashib. And of the gatekeepers: Shallum, and 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 has been a man in the land of Uz—his name Job—and that man has been perfect and upright—both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.
Jeremiah 25:20
And all the mixed people, || And all the kings of the land of Uz, || And all the kings of the land of the Philistines, || And Ashkelon, and Gaza, and 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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