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Ezra 2:22

in Ezra 2

the men of Netophah, 56;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The men of Netophah, fifty and six.

KJV

The men of Netophah, fifty and six.

This verse in Ezra 2

Commentary

2 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 men of Netophah, 56

Ezra counts the 56 men of Netophah apart from the 123 of Bethlehem, a total of 179. Nehemiah 7:26 gives the pair a single figure of 188. The difference is nine.

The words behind it

4 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.

  • אַנְשֵׁ֥י[the] men of

    ʾansheiH582 →566 times

  • נְטֹפָ֖הNetophah

    netofahH5199 →

  • חֲמִשִּׁ֥יםfifty

    chamishimH2572 →163 times

  • וְשִׁשָּֽׁה׃and six

    veshishahH8337 →216 times

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

The walk

8 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

    Jeremiah 40:8

    they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite—they and their…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 42:1

      Then all the commanders of the forces, along with Johanan son of Kareah, Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, approached

    • Deuteronomy 3:14

      Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this…

    • Jeremiah 43:2

      Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to…

  • Through

    2 Samuel 23:28

    Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 11:30

      Maharai the Netophathite, Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Chronicles 27:13

      The tenth, for the tenth month, was Maharai the Netophathite, a Zerahite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

    • 2 Kings 25:23

      When all the commanders of the armies and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah,…

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 2:54

    The descendants of Salma:

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 7:26

      the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;

    • Nehemiah 12:28

      The singers were also assembled from the region around Jerusalem, from the villages of the Netophathites,

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 7:26, the parallel register; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 2 and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.