Man living at the time of Exile and Return
Hashum was an ancestor of exiles who returned to Jerusalem from Babylon.
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Hashum is mentioned as an ancestor of a group of exiles who returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian captivity. In the lists of returnees recorded in Ezra and Nehemiah, the descendants of Hashum are numbered at 223 (Ezr.2.19) and 328 (Neh.7.22) respectively. Later, in the time of Ezra, some of the descendants of Hashum were found to have married foreign women and pledged to put them away (Ezr.10.33). No further information about Hashum is provided in the Bible. (Ezr.2.19; 10.33; Neh.7.22).
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3 verses in 2 books · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H2828
the descendants of Hashum, 223;
From the descendants of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.
the descendants of Hashum, 328;
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