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Ezra 2:31

in Ezra 2

the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

KJV

The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

This verse in Ezra 2

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

), and, which is strange, the number of both is the same, 1254. The children of Adonikam, which signifies a high lord, were 666, just the number of the beast ( Rev. xiii.

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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.

  • בְּנֵי֙[the] descendants of

    beneiH11214930 times

  • עֵילָ֣םElam

    ʾeilamH586728 times

  • אַחֵ֔ר[the] other

    ʾacherH312

  • אֶ֕לֶףone thousand

    ʾelefH505505 times

  • מָאתַ֖יִםtwo hundred

    matayimH3967581 times

  • חֲמִשִּׁ֥יםfifty

    chamishimH2572163 times

  • וְאַרְבָּעָֽה׃ סand four

    vearbaahH702318 times

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

The walk

3 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

    Nehemiah 7:34

    the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254;

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 7:12

      the descendants of Elam, 1,254;

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Ezra 2:7

    the descendants of Elam, 1,254;

    it leads to

    • Ezra 10:26

      From the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.

    • Ezra 8:7

      from the descendants of Elam, Jeshaiah son of Athaliah, and with him 70 men;

About Ezra

Ezra Kneels in Prayer, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezra Kneels in Prayer, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

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