Ezra 10:26

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Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.

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The Babylonian and Persian EmpiresThe Babylonian and Persian empires that carried Judah into exile and later allowed the return.

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Jerusalem was the restored center of Judah’s postexilic community, where Ezra’s reforms addressed marriages with foreign wives among those who had returned from exile. The city matters here as the covenant community’s focal point, though Ezra 10:26 itself names members of the family of Elam involved in the matter.

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Ezra 10:26 mentions Jerusalem.

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