Ezra 2:36
in Ezra 2The priests: The descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
KJV
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
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This verse in Ezra 2
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThe priests,.... An account of them is given in this and the three following verses, and only four families are mentioned, those of Jedaiah, Immer, Pashur, and Harim, and the number of them amounted to 4289; these, according to the Jews, were heads of four courses, which were all that returned from Babylon (u). (u) T. Hieros. Taanioth, fol. 68. 1.
This site's exposition
The descendants of Jedaiah
on Ezra 2:36-42
Priests come first, then Levites, then the singers descended from Asaph, then the gatekeepers. John Gill notes that the Levites number only 74, against the thirty-eight thousand who served in David's day. The same order, priests before singers before gatekeepers, returns in worship once the altar stands in chapter 3.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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 priests - The preceding list takes in the census of Judah and Benjamin.
The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הַֽכֹּהֲנִ֑ים | hakohanim | the priests | H3548 → | 750 times |
| בְּנֵ֤י | benei | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יְדַֽעְיָה֙ | yeda'yah | Jedaiah | H3048 → | |
| לְבֵ֣ית | leveit | of [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יֵשׁ֔וּעַ | yeshua' | Jeshua | H3442 → | 29 times |
| תְּשַׁ֥ע | tesha' | nine | H8672 → | 58 times |
| מֵא֖וֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| שִׁבְעִ֥ים | shivim | seventy | H7657 → | 91 times |
| וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ ס | usheloshah | and three | H7969 → | 432 times |
הַֽכֹּהֲנִ֑יםthe priests
hakohanimH3548 →750 times
בְּנֵ֤י[the] descendants of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
יְדַֽעְיָה֙Jedaiah
yeda'yahH3048 →
לְבֵ֣יתof [the] house of
leveitH1004 →2046 times
יֵשׁ֔וּעַJeshua
yeshua'H3442 →29 times
תְּשַׁ֥עnine
tesha'H8672 →58 times
מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
שִׁבְעִ֥יםseventy
shivimH7657 →91 times
וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ סand three
usheloshahH7969 →432 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
6 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
Ezra 3:9So 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…
it leads to
- Ezra 2:40
The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel (through the line of Hodaviah), 74.
- Ezra 3:8
In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including…
- Nehemiah 7:43
The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua (through Kadmiel, through the line of Hodevah), 74.
- Ezra 2:40
Through
1 Chronicles 9:10From the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, and Jachin;
it leads to
- Nehemiah 11:10–24
From the priests:
- Nehemiah 12:19
of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
- Nehemiah 11:10–24
Through
Nehemiah 7:39The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 24:7–19
The first lot fell to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
- 1 Chronicles 24:7–19
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezra
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther.