Ezra 2:1-60

Holman Christian Standard Bible

The Exiles Who Returned

2 These^(A) now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon^[a] had deported to Babylon.^(B) They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town. ²They came with Zerubbabel,^(C) Jeshua,^(D) Nehemiah, Seraiah,^(E) Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.

The number of the Israelite men included:^[b]

³Parosh’s descendants^(F)	2,172
⁴Shephatiah’s descendants	372
⁵Arah’s descendants	775
⁶Pahath-moab’s descendants:
Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants	2,812
⁷Elam’s descendants	1,254
⁸Zattu’s descendants	945
⁹Zaccai’s descendants	760
¹⁰Bani’s descendants	642
¹¹Bebai’s descendants	623
¹²Azgad’s descendants	1,222
¹³Adonikam’s descendants^(G)	666
¹⁴Bigvai’s descendants	2,056
¹⁵Adin’s descendants	454
¹⁶Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah	98
¹⁷Bezai’s descendants	323
¹⁸Jorah’s descendants	112
¹⁹Hashum’s descendants	223
²⁰Gibbar’s descendants	95
²¹Bethlehem’s^(H) people	123
²²Netophah’s men	56
²³Anathoth’s men	128
²⁴Azmaveth’s people	42
²⁵Kiriatharim’s, Chephirah’s, and Beeroth’s people	743
²⁶Ramah’s^(I) and Geba’s people	621
²⁷Michmas’s men	122
²⁸Bethel’s and Ai’s^(J) men	223
²⁹Nebo’s people	52
³⁰Magbish’s people	156
³¹the other Elam’s people	1,254
³²Harim’s people	320
³³Lod’s, Hadid’s, and Ono’s people	725
³⁴Jericho’s^(K) people	345
³⁵Senaah’s people	3,630

³⁶The priests included:

Jedaiah’s descendants of the house of Jeshua	973
³⁷Immer’s descendants	1,052
³⁸Pashhur’s descendants	1,247
³⁹and Harim’s descendants	1,017

⁴⁰The Levites included:

Jeshua’s and Kadmiel’s descendants
from Hodaviah’s descendants	74

⁴¹The singers included:

Asaph’s^(L) descendants

128

⁴²The gatekeepers’^(M) descendants included:

Shallum’s descendants, Ater’s descendants,
Talmon’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants,
Hatita’s descendants, Shobai’s descendants, in all	139

⁴³The temple servants^(N) included:

Ziha’s descendants, Hasupha’s descendants,
Tabbaoth’s descendants, ⁴⁴Keros’s descendants,
Siaha’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,
⁴⁵Lebanah’s descendants, Hagabah’s descendants,
Akkub’s descendants, ⁴⁶Hagab’s descendants,
Shalmai’s^[c] descendants, Hanan’s descendants,
⁴⁷Giddel’s descendants, Gahar’s descendants,
Reaiah’s descendants, ⁴⁸Rezin’s descendants,
Nekoda’s descendants, Gazzam’s descendants,
⁴⁹Uzza’s descendants, Paseah’s descendants,
Besai’s descendants, ⁵⁰Asnah’s descendants,
Meunim’s^[d] descendants, Nephusim’s^[e] descendants,
⁵¹Bakbuk’s descendants, Hakupha’s descendants,
Harhur’s descendants, ⁵²Bazluth’s descendants,
Mehida’s descendants, Harsha’s descendants,
⁵³Barkos’s descendants, Sisera’s descendants,
Temah’s descendants, ⁵⁴Neziah’s descendants,
and Hatipha’s descendants.

⁵⁵The descendants of Solomon’s servants^(O) included:

Sotai’s descendants, Hassophereth’s descendants,
Peruda’s descendants, ⁵⁶Jaalah’s descendants,
Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,
⁵⁷Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants,
Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, and Ami’s descendants.
⁵⁸All the temple servants
and the descendants of Solomon’s servants	392.

⁵⁹The following are those who came from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer but were unable to prove that their families and ancestry were Israelite: