Ezra 2:40
in Ezra 2The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel (through the line of Hodaviah), 74.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
KJV
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
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This verse in Ezra 2
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThe Levites,.... Singers and porters, who are reckoned in this, and the two following verses, whose numbers were no more than three hundred and forty one; whereas, in the times of David, they were 38,000, 1Ch 23:3.
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.
This site's exposition
the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel
Nehemiah 7:43 gives the same 74 but traces the descendants of Jeshua through Kadmiel, where Ezra names Jeshua and Kadmiel side by side. Both rolls end the line at Hodaviah, spelled Hodevah in Nehemiah. The count is the smallest of any group of temple staff.
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
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הַלְוִיִּ֑ם | halviyim | the Levites | H3881 → | 291 times |
| בְּנֵי־ | benei- | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יֵשׁ֧וּעַ | yeshua' | Jeshua | H3442 → | 29 times |
| וְקַדְמִיאֵ֛ל | vekadmiel | and Kadmiel | H6934 → | |
| לִבְנֵ֥י | livnei | of [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| הוֹדַוְיָ֖ה | hodavyah | Hodaviah | H1938 → | |
| שִׁבְעִ֥ים | shivim | seventy | H7657 → | 91 times |
| וְאַרְבָּעָֽה׃ ס | vearbaah | and four | H702 → | 318 times |
הַלְוִיִּ֑םthe Levites
halviyimH3881 →291 times
בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of
benei-H1121 →4930 times
יֵשׁ֧וּעַJeshua
yeshua'H3442 →29 times
וְקַדְמִיאֵ֛לand Kadmiel
vekadmielH6934 →
לִבְנֵ֥יof [the] sons of
livneiH1121 →4930 times
הוֹדַוְיָ֖הHodaviah
hodavyahH1938 →
שִׁבְעִ֥יםseventy
shivimH7657 →91 times
וְאַרְבָּעָֽה׃ סand four
vearbaahH702 →318 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
3 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 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 3:8
Through
Nehemiah 7:43The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua (through Kadmiel, through the line of Hodevah), 74.
it leads to
- Nehemiah 3:9
Next to them, Rephaiah son of Hur, ruler of a half-district of Jerusalem, made repairs;
- Nehemiah 3:9
Where this verse is studied
On this page
About Ezra
This page draws on Berean Standard Bible, Nehemiah 7:43, the parallel register; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 2; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.