Nehemiah 7:32
in Nehemiah 7the men of Bethel and Ai, 123;
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred twenty and three.
KJV
The men of Beth–el and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
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This verse in Nehemiah 7
Commentary
3 notes on this verseOr perhaps one was the account of them when they set out from Babylon with Zerubbabel, the other when they came to Jerusalem. The sum totals are all just the same there and here, except of the singing-men and singing-women, which there are 200, here 245.
This site's exposition
an hundred fourscore and eight
on Nehemiah 7:26-38
The register changes its axis without announcement: from verse twenty-six the roll counts men by the town they returned to rather than the ancestor they descended from, Bethlehem and Netophah, Anathoth, Jericho, Lod and Ono among them. Genealogy and geography together are one register's two halves, the household traced by blood and then set back down on the map it left. The town names read like a gazetteer of the province the wall now protects.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
He appointed the porters, singers, and Levites, in their places to their work. This is meant of their work in general, which was to attend the temple service; it had been neglected in some degree, but now was revived. God's worship is the defence of a place, and his ministers, when they mind their duty, are watchmen on the walls.
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַנְשֵׁ֤י | ʾanshei | [the] men of | H582 → | 566 times |
| בֵֽית־ | veit- | Beth- | H1008 → | 142 times |
| אֵל֙ | ʾel | -el | H1008 → | 142 times |
| וְהָעָ֔י | vehaai | and <the> Ai | H5857 → | |
| מֵאָ֖ה | meah | one hundred | H3967 → | 581 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֥ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ ס | usheloshah | and three | H7969 → | 432 times |
אַנְשֵׁ֤י[the] men of
ʾansheiH582 →566 times
בֵֽית־Beth-
veit-H1008 →142 times
אֵל֙-el
ʾelH1008 →142 times
וְהָעָ֔יand <the> Ai
vehaaiH5857 →
מֵאָ֖הone hundred
meahH3967 →581 times
עֶשְׂרִ֥יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ סand three
usheloshahH7969 →432 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 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 2:28the men of Bethel and Ai, 223;
it leads to
- Genesis 12:8
From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD,…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Joshua 7:2
Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Joshua 8:9
So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.
- Joshua 8:17
Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel.
- Nehemiah 7:33
the men of the other Nebo, 52;
- Genesis 12:8
Through
Joshua 8:17Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel.
it leads to
- Joshua 8:3
So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night
- Joshua 11:20
For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD…
- Joshua 8:24–25
When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites…
- Joshua 8:3
About Nehemiah
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. F. Adeney, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Expositor's Bible).