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Ezra 2:37

in Ezra 2

the descendants of Immer, 1,052;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.

KJV

The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.

This verse in Ezra 2

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

The priests: the children of Jedaiah

on Ezra 2:36-42

The order now shifts from town to office: priests first, drawn from only four priestly houses, then Levites, then the singers of Asaph's line, then the porters who kept the gates. John Gill notes the Levites number just seventy four against the thirty eight thousand who served in David's day, a remnant carrying an office a nation once filled. The same order, priests before singers before gatekeepers, is the order worship takes up again once the altar stands in the next chapter.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

The priests--Each of their families was ranged under its prince or head, like those of the other tribes. It will be remembered that the whole body was divided into twenty-four courses, one of which, in rotation, discharged the sacerdotal duties every week, and each division was called after the name of its first prince or chief.

The words behind it

5 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.

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] descendants of

    beneiH11214930 times

  • אִמֵּ֔רImmer

    ʾimerH56410 times

  • אֶ֖לֶףone thousand

    ʾelefH505505 times

  • חֲמִשִּׁ֥יםfifty

    chamishimH2572163 times

  • וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ סand two

    ushenayimH8147768 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 7:40

    the descendants of Immer, 1,052;

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 24:14

      the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Ezra 10:20

    From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 7:40

      the descendants of Immer, 1,052;

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 24:14

    the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,

    it leads to

    • Ezra 10:20

      From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

About Ezra

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

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.