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  • Contemporary English Version
    when my brother Hanani came with some men from Judah. So I asked them about the Jews who had escaped from being captives in Babylonia. I also asked them about the city of Jerusalem.
  • Contemporary English Version
    So God gave me the idea to bring together the people, their leaders, and officials and to check the family records of those who had returned from captivity in Babylonia, after having been taken there by King Nebuchadnezzar. About this same time, I found records of those who had been the first to return to Jerusalem from Babylon Province. By reading these records, I learned that they settled in their own hometowns,
  • The Message
    These are the people of the province who returned from the captivity of the Exile, the ones Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried off captive; they came back to Jerusalem and Judah, each going to his own town. They came back in the company of Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. The numbers of the men of the People of Israel by families of origin: Parosh, 2,172 Shephatiah, 372 Arah, 652 Pahath-Moab (sons of Jeshua and Joab), 2,818 Elam, 1,254 Zattu, 845 Zaccai, 760 Binnui, 648 Bebai, 628 Azgad, 2,322 Adonikam, 667 Bigvai, 2,067 Adin, 655 Ater (sons of Hezekiah), 98 Hashum, 328 Bezai, 324 Hariph, 112 Gibeon, 95. Israelites identified by place of origin: Bethlehem and Netophah, 188 Anathoth, 128 Beth Azmaveth, 42 Kiriath Jearim, Kephirah, and Beeroth, 743 Ramah and Geba, 621 Micmash, 122 Bethel and Ai, 123 Nebo (the other one), 52 Elam (the other one), 1,254 Harim, 320 Jericho, 345 Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 721 Senaah, 3,930. Priestly families: Jedaiah (sons of Jeshua), 973 Immer, 1,052 Pashhur, 1,247 Harim, 1,017. Levitical families: Jeshua (sons of Kadmiel and of Hodaviah), 74. Singers: Asaph’s family line, 148. Security guard families: Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita, and Shobai, 138. Families of support staff: Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth, Keros, Sia, Padon, Lebana, Hagaba, Shalmai, Hanan, Giddel, Gahar, Reaiah, Rezin, Nekoda, Gazzam, Uzza, Paseah, Besai, Meunim, Nephussim, Bakbuk, Hakupha, Harhur, Bazluth, Mehida, Harsha, Barkos, Sisera, Temah, Neziah, and Hatipha. Families of Solomon’s servants: Sotai, Sophereth, Perida, Jaala, Darkon, Giddel, Shephatiah, Hattil, Pokereth-Hazzebaim, and Amon. The Temple support staff and Solomon’s servants added up to 392.
  • Easy-to-Read Version
    These are the people of the province who came back from captivity. In the past, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took them as prisoners to Babylon. These people came back to Jerusalem and Judah. They all went to their own towns.
  • Living Bible
    “The following is a list of the names of the Jews who returned to Judah after being exiled by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
  • Common English Bible
    These are the people of the province who returned from the captivity of those exiles whom Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile. They all returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to their own town.
  • Contemporary English Version
    There were 642 who returned from the families of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda, though they could not prove they were Israelites. They had lived in the Babylonian towns of Tel-Melah, Tel-Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer.
  • Contemporary English Version
    Everyone who had returned from Babylonia built shelters. They lived in them and joyfully celebrated the Festival of Shelters for the first time since the days of Joshua son of Nun.
  • Contemporary English Version
    This happened in the thirty-second year that Artaxerxes ruled Babylonia. I was away from Jerusalem at the time, because I was visiting him. Later I received permission from the king
  • The Message
    When this was going on I wasn’t there in Jerusalem; in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, I had traveled back to the king. But later I asked for his permission to leave again. I arrived in Jerusalem and learned of the wrong that Eliashib had done in turning over to him a room in the courts of The Temple of God. I was angry, really angry, and threw everything in the room out into the street, all of Tobiah’s stuff. Then I ordered that they ceremonially cleanse the room. Only then did I put back the worship vessels of The Temple of God, along with the Grain-Offerings and the incense.
  • Easy-to-Read Version
    I was not in Jerusalem while all of this was happening. I had gone back to the king of Babylon. I went back to Babylon in the 32nd year that Artaxerxes was king of Babylon. Later, I asked the king for permission to go back to Jerusalem.
  • Living Bible
    I was not in Jerusalem at the time, for I had returned to Babylon in the thirty-second year of the reign of King Artaxerxes (though I later received his permission to go back again to Jerusalem).
  • Common English Bible
    I wasn’t in Jerusalem while this was happening because I had gone to Babylon’s King Artaxerxes in the thirty-second year of the king. After some time, I asked the king’s permission
Contemporary English Version (CEV)

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The Message (MSG)

Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

Copyright © 2006 by Bible League International

Living Bible (TLB)

The Living Bible copyright © 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Common English Bible (CEB)

Copyright © 2011 by Common English Bible

157 topical index results for “babylon”

AZARIAH » A captive returned from Babylon
ELAM » A district southeast of Babylon, on Persian Gulf
REHUM » A captive who returned to Jerusalem from Babylon
SERAIAH » A priest who returned from the Babylonian captivit
EBED : A captive returned from Babylon (Ezra 8:6)
ELAM : A Jewish captive, whose descendants, to the number of One-thousand two-hundred and fifty-four returned from Babylon (Ezra 2:7;8:7; Nehemiah 7:12)
ETHIOPIA : Within the Babylonian empire (Esther 1:1)
ETHIOPIA : Ebel-melech, at the court of Babylon, native of
EUPHRATES : Casts the scroll containing the prophecies against Babylon into (Jeremiah 51:59-64)
JAHAZIEL : A chief, or the father of a chief, among the exiles, who returned from Babylon (Ezra 8:5)
JEDAIAH : Another priest, who returned from Babylon with Nehemiah (Nehemiah 12:7,21)
JEHOHANAN : A priest among the exiles who returned from Babylon (Nehemiah 12:13)
KNIFE : Of the temple, returned from Babylon (Ezra 1:9)
MIAMIN : A priest who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon (Nehemiah 12:5)
NIMROD : Founder of Babylon
NOADIAH : A Levite who assisted in weighing the silver, gold, and vessels of the temple which were brought back from Babylon (Ezra 8:33)
OBADIAH : A descendant of Joab who returned from Babylon (Ezra 8:9)
PERIDA : Descendants of, returned to Jerusalem from the captivity in Babylon (Nehemiah 7:57)
PERUDA : Descendants of, return to Jerusalem from captivity in Babylon (Ezra 2:55)
PILTAI : A priest who returned to Jerusalem from captivity in Babylon (Nehemiah 12:17)
POCHERETH : The ancestor of a family which returned to Jerusalem from the captivity in Babylon (Ezra 2:57; Nehemiah 7:59)
RAAMIAH : One of those who returned to Jerusalem from captivity in Babylon (Nehemiah 7:7)
REELAIAH : A returned captive from Babylon (Ezra 2:2)
REGEM-MELECH : A captive sent as a messenger from the Jews in Babylon to Jerusalem (Zechariah 7:2)
REHUM : A captive who returned to Jerusalem from Babylon (Ezra 2:2)
REHUM : A priest who returned to Jerusalem from the captivity in Babylon (Nehemiah 12:3)
SAMGAR-NEBO : (A prince of Babylon)
SARSECHIM : (A prince of Babylon)
SHECHANIAH : Two men whose descendants returned with Ezra from the captivity in Babylon (Ezra 8:3,5)
SHECHANIAH : A Levite who returned with Zerubbabel from the captivity in Babylon (Nehemiah 12:3)
SHELOMITH : Ancestor of a family that returned with Ezra from the captivity in Babylon (Ezra 8:10)
SHEMAIAH : A Jew who returned from Babylon with Ezra (Ezra 8:13)
SOPHERETH : A servant of Solomon whose descendants returned from Babylonian captivity to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:55; Nehemiah 7:57)
SOTAI : A servant of Solomon whose descendents returned from Babylonian captivity to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:55; Nehemiah 7:57)
TEL-ABIB : Residence of Jewish captives in Babylonia (Ezekiel 3:15)
ALTAR » IN SOLOMON'S TEMPLE » Furniture of, taken to Babylon (2 Kings 25:14)
ARMIES » March in ranks » See BABYLON
BENJAMIN » TRIBE OF » Return to Palestine from the exile in Babylon (Ezra 1:5)
CANDLESTICK » OF THE TEMPLE » Taken with other spoils to Babylon (Jeremiah 52:19)
CHURCH » LIST OF CONGREGATIONS OF CHRISTIANS » Babylon (1 Peter 5:13)
COURAGE » INSTANCES OF THE COURAGE OF CONVICTION » Ezra, in undertaking the perilous journey from Babylon to Palestine without a guard (Ezra 8:22,23)
CURIOSITY » INSTANCES OF » Of the Babylonians, to see Hezekiah's treasures (2 Kings 20:13)
DISHONESTY » INSTANCES OF » Achan hides the wedge of gold and the Babylonian garment (Joshua 7:11-26)
DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD » INSTANCES OF » Of Achan, in hiding the wedge of gold and the Babylonian garnient (Joshua 7:15-26)
ENVY » INSTANCES OF » The princes of Babylon, of Daniel (Daniel 6:4)
FAITH » INSTANCES OF » Ezra, in making the journey from Babylon to Jerusalem without a military escort (Ezra 8:22)
FAITH » INSTANCES OF TRIAL OF » Ezra, in leaving Babylon without a military escort (Ezra 8:22)
FASTING » INSTANCES OF » In Babylon, with prayer for divine deliverance and guidance (Ezra 8:21,23)
GOVERNMENT » MONARCHICAL » See BABYLON
HEBRON » A city of the tribe of Judah, south of Jerusalem » Jews of the Babylonian captivity lived at (Nehemiah 11:25)
ISAIAH » PROPHECIES, REPROOFS, AND EXHORTATIONS OF » The burden of Babylon (Isaiah 13;14:1-28)
ISAIAH » PROPHECIES, REPROOFS, AND EXHORTATIONS OF » Denunciations against Babylon (Isaiah 21:1-10)
ISAIAH » PROPHECIES, REPROOFS, AND EXHORTATIONS OF » Foretells the ultimate destruction of Babylon (Isaiah 43:14-17;)
ISRAEL, PROPHECIES CONCERNING » (For the history of the above kings see under each » Jehoiakim is elevated to the throne; becomes tributary to Nebuchadnezzar for three years; he rebels; is conquered and carried off to Babylon (2 Kings 24:1-6; 2 Chronicles 36:4-8)
ISRAEL, PROPHECIES CONCERNING » (For the history of the above kings see under each » Jehoiachin is made king; suffers invasion and is carried off to Babylon (2 Kings 24:8-16; 2 Chronicles 36:9,10)
ISRAEL, PROPHECIES CONCERNING » (For the history of the above kings see under each » Zedekiah is made king by Nebuchadnezzar; he rebels; so, Nebuchadnezzar invades Judah, takes Jerusalem, and carries off the people to Babylon, despoiling the temple (2 Kings 24:17-20;; 2 Chronicles 36:11-21)
ISRAEL, PROPHECIES CONCERNING » CAPTIVITY OF » Cyrus directs the rebuilding of the temple, and the restoration of the vessels which had been carried off to Babylon (2 Chronicles 36:23; Ezra 1:3-11)
JEREMIAH » The prophet » Letter to the captives in Babylon (Jeremiah 29)
JEREMIAH » The prophet » Foretells the conquest of Egypt by Babylon (Jeremiah 43:8-12)
JERICHO » A city east of Jerusalem and near the Jordan River » Inhabitants of, taken captive to Babylon, return to, with Ezra and Nehemiah (Ezra 2:34; Nehemiah 7:36)
JESHUA » A Levite who had charge of the tithes » His descendants returned with Ezra from Babylon (Ezra 2:40; Nehemiah 7:43)
MISHAEL » Also called MESHACH » One of three Hebrew young men trained with Daniel at the court of Babylon (Daniel 1:6,7,11-20)
NEHEMIAH » Son of Hachaliah » Register of the people whom he led from Babylon (Nehemiah 7)
PASSOVER » Observation of, renewed » After the return from Babylonian captivity (Ezra 6:19,20)
REPENTANCE » INSTANCES OF » Manasseh, when he was carried away captive to Babylon by the king of Assyria (2 Chronicles 33:12,13)
UTHAI » Son of Bigvai » Returned from Babylon with Ezra (Ezra 8:14)
VISION » Of John on the island of Patmos » The angel proclaiming the fall of Babylon (Revelation 14:8-13)
VISION » Of John on the island of Patmos » The destruction of Babylon (Revelation 18)
(The function he served was superior to that of ot » MISCELLANEOUS FACTS CONCERNING » Taken with the captivity to Babylon (Jeremiah 29:1)