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Nehemiah 7:33

in Nehemiah 7

the men of the other Nebo, 52;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.

KJV

The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.

This verse in Nehemiah 7

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The men of the other Nebo - The word other is not in the parallel place, Ezr 2:29, and is wanting in many of Kennicott’s and De Rossi’s MSS. This Nebo is supposed to be the same as Nob or Nobah, in the tribe of Benjamin.

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 Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Or 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.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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

5 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

    ʾansheiH582566 times

  • נְב֛וֹNebo

    nevoH5015

  • אַחֵ֖ר[the] other

    ʾacherH312166 times

  • חֲמִשִּׁ֥יםfifty

    chamishimH2572163 times

  • וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ סand two

    ushenayimH8147768 times

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

The walk

5 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

    Ezra 2:29

    the descendants of Nebo, 52;

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 48:1

      Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and…

    • Numbers 32:3

      “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

    • Isaiah 15:2

      Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.

    • Jeremiah 48:22

      upon Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,

    • Deuteronomy 32:49

      “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.

About Nehemiah

Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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).