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The People Who Returned from Exile

This is the list of the heads of the clans who had been in exile in Babylonia and who returned with Ezra to Jerusalem when Artaxerxes was emperor:

  • 2-14 Gershom, of the clan of Phinehas
  • Daniel, of the clan of Ithamar
  • Hattush son of Shecaniah, of the clan of David
  • Zechariah, of the clan of Parosh, with 150 men of his clan (there were records of their family lines)
  • Eliehoenai son of Zerahiah, of the clan of Pahath Moab, with 200 men
  • Shecaniah son of Jahaziel, of the clan of Zattu,[a] with 300 men
  • Ebed son of Jonathan, of the clan of Adin, with 50 men
  • Jeshaiah son of Athaliah, of the clan of Elam, with 70 men
  • Zebadiah son of Michael, of the clan of Shephatiah, with 80 men
  • Obadiah son of Jehiel, of the clan of Joab, with 218 men
  • Shelomith son of Josiphiah, of the clan of Bani,[b] with 160 men
  • Zechariah son of Bebai, of the clan of Bebai, with 28 men
  • Johanan son of Hakkatan, of the clan of Azgad, with 110 men
  • Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah, of the clan of Adonikam, with 60 men (they returned at a later date)
  • Uthai and Zaccur, of the clan of Bigvai, with 70 men
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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 8:2 One ancient translation (see also 2.8) Zattu; Hebrew does not have this name.
  2. Ezra 8:2 One ancient translation (see also 2.10) Bani; Hebrew does not have this name.

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