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Hattil

Man living at the time of Exile and Return

Hattil was an ancestor of Solomon's servants who returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian exile.

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Hattil is mentioned as an ancestor of a group of Solomon's servants who returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian captivity. Solomon's servants were a class of people who were assigned to various duties in the service of the king and the temple. In the lists of returnees recorded in Ezra and Nehemiah, the descendants of Hattil are mentioned among Solomon's servants. No further information about Hattil is provided in the Bible. (Ezr.2.57; Neh.7.59).

Bible dictionary

Hattil Hitchcock Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

howling for sin

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Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.

Where Hattil appears

2 verses in 2 books · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H2411

Ezra1
Nehemiah1

Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.