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Parosh
Ancestral family head whose clan of 2,172 was among the first to return from Babylon with Zerubbabel and who helped rebuild Jerusalem.
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Parosh is the name of an ancestral family or clan head whose descendants appear prominently in post-exilic lists. 2 and 7 record 2,172 descendants of Parosh among those who returned from with , making his clan one of the largest in the restoration community. Several men from the house of Parosh are named in Ezra 10 among those who had taken foreign wives. In Nehemiah 3 Pedaiah of the sons of Parosh is listed among the builders of the wall, and in Nehemiah 10 Parosh appears among the leaders who sealed the covenant renewal.
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