KJV ORIGINAL
And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
From the family of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Eliah.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse lists six men from the family group of Elam who had married foreign wives and needed to separate from them to restore proper worship in Israel.
📚 Historical Context
This verse is part of a detailed list of Jewish men who had married foreign women during the Babylonian exile period. After returning to Jerusalem around 458 BC, Ezra the priest led a religious reform requiring these men to divorce their foreign wives because such marriages were forbidden by Jewish law and threatened to corrupt Israel's worship of God.
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