Person Old Testament
Zabad
Zabad, son of Zattu, was an Israelite who had married a foreign wife during the Exile. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Ezra 10:27.
Why it matters. Israelite who married a foreign wife
- Primary passages
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- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Zabad
Zabad, the son of Zattu, is mentioned in the list of men who had taken foreign wives during the Babylonian exile. This was discovered when Ezra, the priest and scribe, returned to Jerusalem and found that many Israelites had intermarried with the pagan peoples of the land. Zabad was one of those who had violated God's command not to intermarry with foreigners. In response to Ezra's call for repentance, Zabad and the others agreed to put away their foreign wives and children to maintain the purity of the Jewish people.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Ezra (1 verse)