Elam עֵילָם

Returned from exile. Elam was the ancestor of a group of exiles who returned to Jerusalem.

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Where Elam appears

Ezra (5), Nehemiah (2)

Key verses

• Ezra 2:7 first mention — The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
• Ezra 2:31 — The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
• Ezra 8:7 — And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
• Ezra 10:2 — And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
• Ezra 10:26 — And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.
• Nehemiah 7:12 — The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
• Nehemiah 7:34 — The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.