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Ezra 2:28

in Ezra 2

the men of Bethel and Ai, 223;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

The men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.

KJV

The men of Beth–el and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.

This verse in Ezra 2

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

The children of Parosh, two thousand

on Ezra 2:3-35

Verses 3 to 35 name family after family by ancestor or by hometown, the pattern Adam Clarke marks in his own notation: children of a person names descendants, children of a place names its former inhabitants. Every count stands as its own witness, since nothing else is known of most of these households beyond the number that came home. John Gill sets the list beside Nehemiah's parallel roll in his seventh chapter and finds the two registers agree in substance though not in every digit, one story kept by two hands.

The words behind it

7 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אַנְשֵׁ֤י[the] men of

    ʾansheiH582566 times

  • בֵֽית־Beth-

    veit-H1008

  • אֵל֙-el

    ʾelH1008

  • וְהָעָ֔יand <the> Ai

    vehaaiH5857

  • מָאתַ֖יִםtwo hundred

    matayimH3967581 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֥יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242315 times

  • וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ סand three

    usheloshahH7969432 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Joshua 7:2

    Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied…

    it leads to

    • Joshua 18:12

      On the north side their border began at the Jordan, went up past the northern slope of Jericho, headed west through the hill country, and came out at the wilderness of Beth-aven.

    • Hosea 4:15

      Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’

    • 1 Samuel 13:5

      Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of…

    • 1 Samuel 14:23

      So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle moved on beyond Beth-aven.

    • Proverbs 20:18

      Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.

  • Through

    Genesis 12:8

    From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD,…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 4:26

      And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.

    • Nehemiah 11:31

      The descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;

    • Genesis 21:33

      And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

About Ezra

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.