Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph are listed as the final names among the sons of Bani who sent away their foreign wives, completing one of the longest single-family groups in the entire divorce registry. The repetition of common names like Shallum and Amariah throughout the lists reflects the shared naming practices of the community — names that invoked peace, divine protection, and divine addition — even as that community struggled with the boundary questions that would define its identity. The closing of this long family group signals the exhaustive nature of the covenant review. The Chronicler leaves no family unit unexamined in his account of Israel's restoration.

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