Ezra assembles the outcasts of Israel, and the dispersed of Judah. God raised up the spirits of a small remnant to accompany him. What a pity that good men should omit a good work, for want of being spoken to!
SDA Bible Commentary (limited)
Volume 1-7
10. Shelomith. As in v.5 there seems to be an omission of a name, which the LXX supplies by reading, “Of the sons of Bani, Shelomith, the son of Josephiah.” Bani appears as the head of a family in ch.2:10.