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Ezra 2:42

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The gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, and the descendants of Shobai, 139 in all.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all a hundred thirty and nine.

KJV

The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.

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This verse in Ezra 2

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

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 Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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

18 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

  • הַשֹּֽׁעֲרִ֗יםthe gatekeepers

    hashoarimH7778 →37 times

  • בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • שַׁלּ֤וּםShallum

    shalumH7967 →27 times

  • בְּנֵֽי־[the] descendants of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • אָטֵר֙Ater

    ʾaterH333 →

  • בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • טַלְמ֣וֹןTalmon

    talmonH2929 →

  • בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • עַקּ֔וּבAkkub

    ʾakuvH6126 →

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] descendants of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • חֲטִיטָ֖אHatita

    chatita'H2410 →

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] descendants of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • שֹׁבָ֑יShobai

    shovaiH7630 →

  • הַכֹּ֕ל<the> everyone

    hakolH3605 →5413 times

  • מֵאָ֖ה[was] one hundred

    meahH3967 →581 times

  • שְׁלֹשִׁ֥יםthirty

    sheloshimH7970 →172 times

  • וְתִשְׁעָֽה׃ פand nine

    vetishahH8672 →58 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

3 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

    1 Chronicles 9:17

    These were the gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their relatives.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 26:1–32

      These were the divisions of the gatekeepers: From the Korahites: Meshelemiah son of Kore, one of the sons of Asaph.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Nehemiah 11:19

      And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their associates, who kept watch at the gates—172 men.

    • 1 Chronicles 23:5

      4,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for giving praise.”

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.
Ezra: the study guide →Read Ezra 2 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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