Ezra 10:15 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.”

Ezra 10:15 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Ezra 10:15 in 6 Bible Translations

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Ezra 10:15 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.”

Ezra 10:15 — World English Bible

Ezra 10:15 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.”

Ezra 10:15 — American Standard Version

Ezra 10:15 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“Only Jonathan son of Asahel, and Jahaziah son of Tikvah, stood against this, and Meshullam, and Shabbethai the Levite, helped them.”

Ezra 10:15 — Young's Literal Translation

Ezra 10:15 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.”

Ezra 10:15 — Darby Translation

Ezra 10:15 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“Then were appoynted Ionathan the sonne of Asah-el, and Iahaziah the sonne of Tikuah ouer this matter, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Leuites helped them.”

Ezra 10:15 — Geneva Bible

Ezra 10:15 in Context — Ezra 10

13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.

14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.

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What Does Ezra 10:15 Mean?

Ezra 10:15 is a verse from the Book of Ezra, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Ezra chapter 10. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

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