Ezra 2:41
in Ezra 2The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 128.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty and eight.
KJV
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.
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This verse in Ezra 2
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThis 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 Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
If one place, one family, has the reputation for pious zeal now, another may have it another time. The wind blows where it listeth, and shifts its points. Of the Nethinim, who, it is supposed, were the Gibeonites, given (so their name signifies) by Joshua first ( Josh. ix.
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The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הַֽמְשֹׁרְרִ֑ים | hamshorerim | the singers | H7891 → | 86 times |
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אָסָ֔ף | ʾasaf | Asaph | H623 → | |
| מֵאָ֖ה | meah | one hundred | H3967 → | 581 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֥ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| וּשְׁמֹנָֽה׃ פ | ushemonah | and eight | H8083 → | 109 times |
הַֽמְשֹׁרְרִ֑יםthe singers
hamshorerimH7891 →86 times
בְּנֵ֣י[the] descendants of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
אָסָ֔ףAsaph
ʾasafH623 →
מֵאָ֖הone hundred
meahH3967 →581 times
עֶשְׂרִ֥יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
וּשְׁמֹנָֽה׃ פand eight
ushemonahH8083 →109 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
1 Chronicles 15:17So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah; from their brothers the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah;
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 6:33
These are the men who served, together with their sons. From the Kohathites:
- 1 Chronicles 6:44
On the left were their kinsmen, the sons of Merari:
- 1 Chronicles 6:39
Heman’s kinsman was Asaph, who served at his right hand:
- 1 Chronicles 6:33
Through
1 Chronicles 6:39Heman’s kinsman was Asaph, who served at his right hand:
it leads to
- Nehemiah 7:44
The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 148.
- 2 Chronicles 29:13
Shimri and Jeuel from the Elizaphanites; Zechariah and Mattaniah from the Asaphites;
- 2 Chronicles 5:12
all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.
- Psalms 83:1
O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.
- Nehemiah 11:17
Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son…
- Nehemiah 7:44
About Ezra
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.