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Clementine Latin Vulgate

Tobiæ 8:3

Abiit quoque in Emath Suba, et obtinuit eam.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Genealogy;   Parosh;   Pharosh;   Shechaniah;   Zechariah (Zecharias);  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ezra;   Nehemiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Shechaniah;   Zechariah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Parosh;   Pharosh;   Shecaniah;   Shechaniah;   Zechariah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;   Johanan;   Parosh;   Samaias;   Sechenias;   Shecaniah;   Zathoes;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Census;   Pharosh ;   Shechaniah ;   Zechariah ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pu'rosh;   Pha'rosh;   Shechani'ah;   Zechari'ah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Parosh;   Phoros;   Sechenias;   Shecaniah;   Zacharias (1);   Zechariah (1);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ezra the Scribe;  

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
De filiis Secheniæ, filiis Pharos, Zacharias: et cum eo numerati sunt viri centum quinquaginta.
Nova Vulgata (1979)
De filiis Pharos, Zacharias; et cum eo numerati sunt viri centum quinquaginta.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Pharosh: This variation is attributable to the translators; the original being uniformly Parosh. Ezra 2:3, Nehemiah 7:8, Nehemiah 10:14, Parosh

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 3-14. Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh,.... Who is so described, to distinguish him from another Shechaniah, Ezra 8:5,

Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy, of the males an hundred and fifty; males only were reckoned, not women and children; though that there were such that went up is clear from Ezra 8:21, from hence to the end of Ezra 8:14 an account is given of the number of the males that went up with Ezra, who were chiefly, if not altogether, sons of those that went up with Zerubbabel; such of them as were left there behind, and now returned, at least a great number of them, see Ezra 2:1, it is particularly remarked of the sons of Adonikam, Ezra 8:13, that they were the last of them; not that they were the last that came in to go with Ezra, or were backward and dilatory, but the last with respect to the first of his sons that were gone before, and seem with them to be the whole of his family; the number of all that went up under their respective heads amounts to 1496.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Punctuate as follows:

Ezra 8:2. ... of the sons of David, Hattush of the sons of Shechaniah.

Ezra 8:3. Of the sons of Pharosh, Zechariah ....

Hattush, the descendant of David, was the grandson of Shechaniah (see marginal reference).

Most of these names Ezra 8:2-14 occur also as those of heads of families in the list of the Jews who returned with Zerubbabel Ezra 2:3-15. The Septuagint and Syriac versions supply omissions in Ezra 8:5, Ezra 8:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezra 8:3. Of the sons of Shechaniah — There were three of this name; the second is mentioned Ezra 8:6, and the third Ezra 10:2. They were all different persons, as may be seen from their fathers' houses.


 
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