Ezra 2:55
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,
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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
The children of Solomon's servants - The Nethinim, and others appointed to do the meaner services of the holy house.
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…
Solomon's servants, a class similar to the Nethinim, with whom they are also found in conjunction Neh 7:60; Neh 11:3. They are apparently included under the more general term Nethinim in such passages…