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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

ki'-lan (Kilan; the King James Version Ceilan): Mentioned with Azetas in 1 Esdras 5:15; their sons returned among the exiles with Zerubbabel. The names do not appear in the lists of Ezra and Nehemiah.