Elam

Elam is a man living at the time of the exile and return. He is named in 7 verses of the Bible, first in Ezra 2:7.

Verses

Ezra

• Ezra 2:7
  The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
• Ezra 2:31
  The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254;
• Ezra 8:7
  And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.from the descendants of Elam, Jeshaiah son of Athaliah, and with him 70 men;
• 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.Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.
• Ezra 10:26
  And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.From the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 7:12
  The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
• Nehemiah 7:34
  The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254;

Notes

1. Names, family links and verses from STEPBible's Translators Individualised Proper Names (TIPNR), STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0.
2. Where several people share a name, which verses belong to which person, and the family links, follow STEPBible's identifications; some are uncertain and are marked so.