Ezra 8:15

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Aku menghimpunkan mereka dekat sungai yang mengalir ke Ahawa dan di sana kami berkemah tiga hari lamanya. Ketika kuselidiki mereka, ternyata ada orang-orang Israel awam dan imam-imam, tetapi tidak kudapati di antara mereka orang-orang dari bani Lewi.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Aku menghimpunkan mereka dekat sungai yang mengalir ke Ahawa dan di sana kami berkemah tiga hari lamanya. Ketika kuselidiki mereka, ternyata ada orang-orang Israel awam dan imam-imam, tetapi tidak kudapati di antara mereka orang-orang dari bani Lewi.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sekalian ini kuhimpunkan di tepi sungai yang mengalir ke Ahawa, lalu kami berhenti di sana tiga hari lamanya; serta aku berjalan keliling di antara orang banyak dan segala imam itu, maka seorang Lewi juapun tiada kudapati di sana.

Contextual Overview

¹ These are now the principall fathers of them, and this is the register of them that went vp with me from Babylon, what time as king Artaxerxes raigned. ² Of the children of Phinehes, Gersom: of the children of Ithamar, Daniel: of the children of Dauid, Hattus: ³ Of the children of Zechania, among the children of Pharos, Zachari & with him were numbred an hundred and fiftie men. ⁴ Of the childre of the captaine of Moab, Elioenai the sonne of Zerahia, & with him two hundred men. ⁵ Of the children of Zechania the sonne of Iahasiel, and with him three hundred men. ⁶ Of the children of Adin, Abed the sonne of Ionathan, and with hym fiftie men. ⁷ Of the children of Elam, Isai the sonne of Athalia, and with hym seuentie men. ⁸ Of the children of Saphatia, Zebadia the sonne of Michael, and with hym fourescore men. ⁹ Of the children of Ioab, Obadia the sonne of Iehiel, and with him two hundred and eyghteene men. ¹⁰ Of the children of Selomith, the sonne of Iosephia, and with hym an hundred and threescore men.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the river that runneth: Ahava is supposed to be the river Adiava, which, with the Diava, is said by Ammianus to have given name to Adiabene, a province of Assyria, through which they flowed into the Tigris. These rivers were also called respectively, Anzabas and Zabas, the Caprus and Lycus of Ptolemy; the former of which he places, at its source, in long. 79 degrees, lat. 39+ degrees, and at its junction with the Tigris, in long. 79+ degrees, lat. 36 degrees 6 minutes; and the latter, at its source, in long 78 degrees, lat. 39 degrees; and where it falls into the Tigris, in long. 79 degrees, lat. 36+ degrees. They are now called the Great and Little Zab, or the Zabein, i.e., the two Zabs, which, says Ibn Haukal, "are considerable streams, each about half as large as the Dejleh - or Tigris. They rise among the mountains of Azerbaijan: of these, the larger is that which runs towards Haditheh. These streams form part of the Tigris, and water the district of Semerah." Psalms 137:1, Ezekiel 1:1, Ezekiel 3:15, Acts 16:13

Ahava: Ezra 8:21, Ezra 8:31

abode: Heb. pitched

and found: Ezra 8:2, Ezra 7:7, Ezra 7:24

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 12:27 - out Jeremiah 31:6 - Arise

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava,.... From whence also the river bore the same name; or that from the river, see Ezra 8:21, and may be the same with Adiabene, a country in Assyria, which had its name from the river Adiava:

and there abode we in tents three days; or pitched their camp; this was the place of their rendezvous:

and I viewed the people and the priests; mustered them, took the number of them, and what tribe and families they were of:

and found there none of the sons of Levi; excepting the priests.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ahava was both a town and a river Ezra 8:21. The modern name of the place is Hit. It is famous for its bitumen springs, and is situated on the Euphrates, at a distance of about 80 miles from Babylon, toward the northwest.

None of the sons of Levi - The Levites appear to have been disinclined to return to Jerusalem (see Ezra 3:8 note).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. The river that runneth to Ahava — Ahava was a river itself, which is supposed to be the same that is called Diava or Adiava, in the province of Adiabene; and perhaps the place whence the people of Ava came who were brought by the king of Assyria to Palestine, 2 Kings 17:24.

None of the sons of Levi. — None that were simply Levites. He found priests, and they were sons of Levi; but no Levites that were not priests.