Ezra 3:9 KJV — MannaFest

Ezra 3:9

Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

▾

ASV

Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.

WEB

So Jeshua and his sons and brothers, Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Yehudah), and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers—all Levites—joined together to supervise those working on the house of God.

YLT

And Jeshua standeth, and his sons, and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, sons of Judah together, to overlook those doing the work in the house of God; the sons of Henadad, and their sons and their brethren the Levites.

DBT

And Jeshua stood up, his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, as one [man], to superintend the workmen in the house ofGod; [also] the sons of Henadad, their sons and their brethren, the Levites.

About this book

Old Testament

▾

Ezra — The return in two waves — Zerubbabel's altar and temple (538 BC) and Ezra's reforming arrival (458 BC). A book about rebuilding — the temple, the Torah-teaching community, and the covenant boundary.

Author: Ezra (traditional); the book uses first-person narrative in chs. 7–10
Date: Events 538–458 BC; compilation c. mid-5th century BC

Book overview →Read full book →Read chapter 3 →

⋯

Commentary voices

loading…

Go deeper1

Featured studies on this verse

Featured study
The TabernacleSecond temple foundation laid — weeping and shouting mingled.

Featured studies

loading…

Cross-references

4 verses on the floor

Ezra 2:40
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
Ezra 3:8
Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the Lord.
Nehemiah 7:43
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
Ezra 2:36
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Cross-references

loading…

Voices3

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

This was the day of small things, which was not to be despised, Zech. iv. The Renewal of the Sacrifices. 1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), and strengthening their hands with good and comfortable words. Note, Those that do not work themselves may yet do good service by quickening and encouraging those that do work. How God was praised at the laying of the foundation of the temple (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Jeshua with his sons--not the high priest, but a Levite (Ezr 2:40). To these, as probably distinguished for their mechanical skill and taste, the duty of acting as overseers was particularly committed.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

On this verse

loading…

Words3

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H344229× in canon H4399167× in canon H3881291× in canon

The quotation web

loading…

The walk7

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

Where the connections lead

loading…

Continue: Ezra 3 →