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Bani
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or (Heb. Bani', בָּנִי , built; Sept. usually Βανί, sometimes Βουνί or Βανουϊ v , etc.), the name of at least five men.
1. A Levite, son of Shamer, and father of Amzi, of the family of Merari
(1 Chronicles 6:46). B.C. long ante 1043.
2. A Gadite, one of David's thirty-seven warriors (2 Samuel 23:36). B.C. 1046.
3. A descendant of Pharez, and father of Imri, one of whose descendants returned from Babylon (1 Chronicles 9:4). B.C. long ante 536.
4. One of the heads of families whose retainers to the number of 642 returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:10; Ezra 10:29; Ezra 10:34; Nehemiah 10:14; 1 Esdras 5:12). He is elsewhere (Nehemiah 7:15) called BINNUI (See BINNUI) (q.v). (See BANID). He was himself one of those who divorced their heathen wives (Ezra 10:38). Others consider this last a different person, and identify him with some of those referred to below. B.C. 536-410.
5. A Levite, whose son Rehum repaired a portion of the (branch) wall of Jerusalem skirting the brow of Mount Zion on the east (Nehemiah 3:17). Apparently the same Bani was among those who were conspicuous in all the reforms on the return from Babylon (Nehemiah 8:7; Nehemiah 9:4 twice, 5; 10:13). He had another son named Uzzi, who was appointed overseer of the Levites at Jerusalem; his own father's name was Hashabiah (Nehemiah 11:22). B.C. 446-410. (See CHENANI).
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Bani'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/b/bani.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
