And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.
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Gill's Exposition
And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah,.... Four more of the chief of the Levites, the pedigree of the last of which is traced up by Micah and Zichri to Asaph, the singer in the times of…
Adam Clarke
And their brethren - What a prodigious number of ecclesiastics to perform the Divine service of one temple! no less than one thousand seven hundred and eighty able-bodied men! and this number is…
The first verse looks back upon the foregoing genealogies, and tells us they were gathered out of the books of the kings of Israel and Judah, not that which we have in the canon of scripture, but…
Cambridge Bible
heads of the house of their fathers R.V. heads of their fathers" houses.
a thousand and seven hundred and threescore Only the five -courses" of priests mentioned above (viz., Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, and…
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