Ezra 2:61

61 et de filiis sacerdotum filii Obia filii Accos filii Berzellai qui accepit de filiabus Berzellai Galaditis uxorem et vocatus est nomine eorum

Ezra 2:61 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 2:61

And of the children of the priests
Who could not make out their pedigree, for those that could are mentioned before:

the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of
Barzillai;
how the latter came by this name follows:

which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was
called after their name;
this man married a woman that descended from the famous Barzillai the Gileadite, in the times of David; and the priesthood being in disuse, and mean and despicable, in Babylon, he chose to take the name of his wife's family, and pass for a descendant from that, and perhaps destroyed, or at least neglected, to take care of the genealogy of his own family.

Ezra 2:61 In-Context

59 et hii qui ascenderunt de Thelmela Thelarsa Cherub et Don et Mer et non potuerunt indicare domum patrum suorum et semen suum utrum ex Israhel essent

60 filii Delaia filii Tobia filii Necoda sescenti quinquaginta duo

61 et de filiis sacerdotum filii Obia filii Accos filii Berzellai qui accepit de filiabus Berzellai Galaditis uxorem et vocatus est nomine eorum

62 hii quaesierunt scripturam genealogiae suae et non invenerunt et eiecti sunt de sacerdotio

63 et dixit Athersatha eis ut non comederent de sancto sanctorum donec surgeret sacerdos doctus atque perfectus