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BANI

(Heb. bānî)

Perhaps an abbreviated form of Benaiah; however, since both names appear in the same lists, it is not likely that they are identical.

1. A Gadite who was a lesser member of David’s elite warrior group known as the “Thirty” (2 Sam. 23:36). The parallel account reads “Hagri” (1 Chr. 11:38).

2. A Levite in the ancestral line of Ethan, who served in the time of David (1 Chr. 6:46[MT 31]).

3. A Judahite who was a son of Perez (1 Chr. 9:4).

4. A family of whom 642 members returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian Exile (Ezra 2:10). Several members who had married foreign women were among those who promised to put away their foreign wives (Ezra 10:29, 34). A parallel list reads Binnui (3) for Bani (Neh. 7:15), but some scholars think that the names represent two distinct families.

5. The father of Rehum, who was closely involved with the revival work of Ezra. He directed a group of Levites who repaired part of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah (Neh. 3:17). Bani was also among those who stood with Ezra as the scribe read the law to the people (Neh. 8:7-8; cf. 9:4). Ezra would read a paragraph or two and other men would explain, expound, and possibly translate into Aramaic the text as it was read. It is not clear if they took turns doing this or if each man had a smaller group to which he presented the material.

Bani could also be the father of Uzzi, the overseer of the 284 Levites chosen by lot to move into Jerusalem to occupy the city and work at the temple (Neh. 11:22). Originally the family of Bani had been singers in the house of God in the time of David.

6. One who set his seal to the renewed covenant under Nehemiah (Neh. 10:15[16]).

Wesley Paddock

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BANI

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)