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Ezra 2:10

in Ezra 2

the descendants of Bani, 642;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.

KJV

The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.

This verse in Ezra 2

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the descendants of Parosh, 2,172

on Ezra 2:3-35

Verses 3 to 35 name family after family. Adam Clarke notes the pattern: a person's name marks descendants, and a place name marks its former inhabitants. John Gill sets the list beside the parallel roll in Nehemiah 7 and finds the two agree in substance while differing in some numbers.

This site's exposition

the descendants of Bani, 642

Nehemiah 7:15 names this family Binnui. Its count there is 648, six more than Ezra's 642, and the name holds the same place in both rolls, between Zaccai and Bebai.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Quodvultdeus

Commentary (church-history corpus) · Written before 450.

proposed

Having arrived at Jerusalem, Ezra, inflamed with zeal for the Law, decided first of all to purify the people of their vices, since, as the prophet said, ―A wise king is the salvation of his people.‖ Having found the book of Moses, he showed, among …

The words behind it

6 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

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • בָנִ֔יBani

    vaniH1137 →16 times

  • שֵׁ֥שׁsix

    sheshH8337 →216 times

  • מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

  • אַרְבָּעִ֥יםforty

    ʾarbaimH705 →136 times

  • וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ סand two

    ushenayimH8147 →768 times

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

Where this verse is studied

About Ezra

Cyrus Restores the Vessels of the Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cyrus Restores the Vessels of the Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Berean Standard Bible, Nehemiah 7:14 to 16, the parallel register; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 2; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Quodvultdeus, Commentary (church-history corpus).