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Ezra 2:36

Ezra 2:36
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

The Levites,.... Singers and porters, who are reckoned in this, and the two following verses, whose numbers were no more than three hundred and forty one; whereas, in the times of David, they were…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

The priests - The preceding list takes in the census of Judah and Benjamin.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Ezra 2:36-63

Here is an account, I. Of the priests that returned, and they were a considerable number, about a tenth part of the whole company: for the whole were above 42,000 (Ezr 2:64), and four families of…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Ezra 2:36-39

The names and numbers of the houses of the priests correspond exactly in the three registers.

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