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JPSThe children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
ASVThe children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
DRAThe children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty-four.
YLTSons of another Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
DrbyThe children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred and fifty-four.
RVThe children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
WbstrThe children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
KJB-1769The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
KJB-1611[fn]The children of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundred, fiftie and foure. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)
BshpsThe childre of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fiftie and foure. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)
GnvaThe sonnes of the other Elam, a thousand, and two hundreth, and foure and fiftie: (The sons of the other Elam, a thousand, and two hundreth, and four and fifty: )
Cvdlthe childre of the other Elam a thousande, two hundreth and foure and fiftye: (the children of the other Elam a thousand, two hundreth and four and fiftye:)
Wyclthe sones of the tother Helam, a thousynde two hundrid and foure and fifti; (the sons of the tother Helam, a thousand two hundred and four and fifti;)
Luthder Kinder des andern Elam tausend zweihundert und vierundfünfzig; (der children the change Elam tausend zweihundert and vierundfünfzig;)
ClVgFilii Ælam alterius, mille ducenti quinquaginta quatuor. (Children Ælam alterius, a_thousand ducenti quinquaginta four. )
2:1-70 This chapter is the first of Ezra’s major digressions from the main story line. The returning exiles needed to keep track of who the true Jews were so that the community could maintain its identity (by knowing whom they could marry) and theological purity (by knowing who could worship at the Temple). This list is not an initial list (cp. Neh 7:6-73) of all the Jews who returned to Jerusalem but a slightly later list (after Sheshbazzar had died) of people who had settled in their towns.
The list speaks here of the sons of Elam. This is an idiom that means that these men were from families that had originally lived in this town. (“The other Elam” indicates that this is the town of that name, not the person of that name mentioned in 2:7.) Alternate translation: “From the town of Elam”
The Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem, where all Israelite males were commanded to offer sacrifices to the Lord (Exodus 23:14-19; Deuteronomy 16:16-17), underwent several stages of reconstruction and development over hundreds of years. The first Temple was built by King Solomon to replace the aging Tabernacle, and it was constructed on a threshing floor on high ground on the north side of the city (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21). Hundreds of years later King Hezekiah expanded the platform surrounding the Temple. When Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 B.C., the Temple was completely destroyed (2 Kings 25:1-21; 2 Chronicles 36:17-21; Jeremiah 39:1-10; 52:1-30). It was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after a group of Jews returned to Judea from exile in Babylon (Ezra 1:5-6:15; Nehemiah 7:5-65). Herod the Great completely rebuilt and expanded the Temple once again around 20 B.C., making it one of the largest temples in the Roman world. Jesus’ first believers often met together in Solomon’s Colonnade, a columned porch that encircled the Temple Mount, perhaps carrying on a tradition started by Jesus himself (John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12). But Herod’s Temple did not last long: After many Jews revolted against Rome, the Romans eventually recaptured Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple in A.D. 70.
