Bani [Bā'nī]—built or posterity.

1. The Gadite, and one of David’s thirty heroes (2 Sam. 23:36).
2. The son of Shamer, an Aaronite (1 Chron. 6:46).
3. The father of Imri, a Judahite through Pharez (1 Chron. 9:4).
4. Father of a family that returned with other captives from Babylon (Ezra 2:10; 10:29). Called Binnui in Nehemiah 7:15).
5. One whose descendants had married foreign wives during the exile (Ezra 10:34).
6. A descendant of No. 5 who also had married a foreign wife (Ezra 10:38).
7. A Levite, father of Rehum who repaired part of the city wall (Neh. 3:17; 8:7).
8. A Levite who regulated the devotions of the people after Ezra read and expounded the Law (Neh. 9:4, 5; 10:13).
9. A chieftain who sealed the covenant (Neh. 10:14).
10. A Levite whose son was overseer of the Levites after the exile. Perhaps the same person as No. 7 or No. 8 (Neh. 11:22).