Ezra 10:27
New International Version
From the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad and Aziza.

New Living Translation
From the family of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.

English Standard Version
Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.

Berean Standard Bible
From the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.

King James Bible
And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

New King James Version
of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza;

New American Standard Bible
and of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza;

NASB 1995
and of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad and Aziza;

NASB 1977
and of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza;

Legacy Standard Bible
and of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad and Aziza;

Amplified Bible
and of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza;

Christian Standard Bible
Zattu’s descendants: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Zattu’s descendants: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza;

American Standard Version
And of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

Contemporary English Version
Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza from the family of Zattu;

English Revised Version
And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
From the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza

Good News Translation
Clan of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza

International Standard Version
From Zattu's descendants: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.

Majority Standard Bible
From the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.

NET Bible
From the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.

New Heart English Bible
Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

Webster's Bible Translation
And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

World English Bible
Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

Young's Literal Translation
And of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

Smith's Literal Translation
And from the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, and Zabad and Aziza.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And of the sons of Zethua, Elioenai, Eliasib, Mathania, Jerimuth, and Zabad, and Aziaza.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And from the sons of Zattu, Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

New American Bible
of the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza;

New Revised Standard Version
Of the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And of the sons of Zatiah, Elihnai, Elishah, Nethaniah, Jeremoth, Zabor, and Uzzia.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
From the sons of Zithaiah: Elani, Elishab, Nethaniah, Yarmuth, Zabur, Uzziah.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And of the sons of Zathua; Elionai, Elisub, Matthanai, and Armoth, and Zabad, and Oziza.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Those Guilty of Intermarriage
26From the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah. 27From the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza. 28From the descendants of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.…

Cross References
Nehemiah 13:23-27
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. / Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah. / I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves! ...

Deuteronomy 7:3-4
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, / because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

1 Kings 11:1-2
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. / These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.

Malachi 2:11
Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

2 Corinthians 6:14-17
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? / What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? / What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” ...

Exodus 34:15-16
Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices. / And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.

Joshua 23:12-13
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, / know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. / I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. / But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

Judges 3:5-6
Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. / And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

1 Kings 16:31-33
And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal. / First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria. / Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.

2 Kings 17:7-8
All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods / and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel.

Nehemiah 10:30
We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.

1 Corinthians 7:39
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 19:2
Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.

1 Peter 2:9-12
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. / Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. / Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul. ...


Treasury of Scripture

And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

Zattu

Ezra 2:8
The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.

Nehemiah 7:13
The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.

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Children Descendants Eliashib Eli'ashib Elioenai Eli-O-E'nai Jeremoth Jer'emoth Mattaniah Mattani'ah Zabad Zattu
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Children Descendants Eliashib Eli'ashib Elioenai Eli-O-E'nai Jeremoth Jer'emoth Mattaniah Mattani'ah Zabad Zattu
Ezra 10
1. Ezra encouraged to reform the strange marriages
6. Ezra assembles the people
9. The people repent, and promise amendment
15. The care to perform it
18. The names of them which had married strange wives














From the descendants of Zattu
This phrase introduces a specific lineage within the broader context of the Israelites returning from exile. The name "Zattu" is of Hebrew origin, possibly meaning "olive tree" or "olive grove," symbolizing peace and prosperity. The mention of descendants highlights the importance of family lineage and heritage in Jewish culture, emphasizing the continuity of God's covenant with His people.

Elioenai
This name means "my eyes are toward God" in Hebrew. It reflects a posture of faith and reliance on God, which is significant in the context of the Israelites' return to Jerusalem and their efforts to restore their community and religious practices. Elioenai's inclusion in this list underscores the importance of maintaining a God-focused life amidst challenges.

Eliashib
Meaning "God restores" or "God will restore," Eliashib's name is a testament to the hope and renewal that God promises His people. In the historical context of Ezra, this name is particularly poignant as the Israelites are in the process of rebuilding their lives and their temple after the Babylonian exile. It serves as a reminder of God's faithfulness and His power to restore what has been lost.

Mattaniah
This name translates to "gift of Yahweh" or "gift of the Lord." It signifies the blessings and favor that God bestows upon His people. In the context of Ezra, Mattaniah's presence in the list of descendants highlights the idea that the return from exile and the re-establishment of the community are gifts from God, underscoring His grace and generosity.

Jeremoth
The name Jeremoth means "heights" or "elevations," suggesting a sense of being lifted up or exalted. This can be seen as a metaphor for the spiritual elevation and renewal that the Israelites are experiencing as they return to their homeland and recommit to their covenant with God. It reflects the hope of rising above past failures and embracing a future aligned with God's will.

Zabad
Meaning "endowed" or "given," Zabad's name emphasizes the concept of being endowed with gifts or responsibilities. In the context of Ezra, it can be interpreted as a reminder of the responsibilities that come with the blessings of God, including the duty to uphold His laws and commandments as the community rebuilds.

Aziza
This name means "strong" or "mighty" in Hebrew. It conveys a sense of strength and resilience, qualities that are essential for the Israelites as they face the challenges of rebuilding their society and religious practices. Aziza's inclusion in the list serves as an encouragement to remain steadfast and courageous in the face of adversity, trusting in God's strength to sustain them.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
From the descendants
וּמִבְּנֵ֖י (ū·mib·bə·nê)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Zattu:
זַתּ֑וּא (zat·tū)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2240: Zattu -- an Israelite

Elioenai,
אֶלְיוֹעֵנַ֤י (’el·yō·w·‘ê·nay)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 454: Elihoenai -- 'toward Yah (are) my eyes', two Israelites

Eliashib,
אֶלְיָשִׁיב֙ (’el·yā·šîḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 475: Eliashib -- 'God restores', the name of several Israelites

Mattaniah,
מַתַּנְיָ֣ה (mat·tan·yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4983: Mattaniah -- 'gift of Yah', the last king of Judah, also a number of Israelites

Jeremoth,
וִֽירֵמ֔וֹת (wî·rê·mō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3406: Jeremoth -- the name of a number of Israelites

Zabad,
וְזָבָ֖ד (wə·zā·ḇāḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2066: Zabad -- 'he has given', the name of several Israelites

and Aziza.
וַעֲזִיזָֽא׃ (wa·‘ă·zî·zā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5819: Aziza -- an Israelite


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