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