Nehemiah 7:57
in Nehemiah 7The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
KJV
The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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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
the children of Ziha
on Nehemiah 7:46-60
The Nethinims and the children of Solomon's servants close the temple household, thirty-five families of temple laborers named one by one though no descent from Israel is claimed for them. Their presence in the register beside priests and Levites gives even the lowest servants of the house a fixed place and a recorded name. The list treats a woodcutter's or a water carrier's family with the same care it gives a priest's.
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֵ֖י | benei | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| עַבְדֵ֣י | ʾavdei | [the] servants of | H5650 → | 799 times |
| שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה | shelomoh | Solomon | H8010 → | 291 times |
| בְּנֵי־ | benei- | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| סוֹטַ֥י | sotai | Sotai | H5479 → | |
| בְּנֵי־ | benei- | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| סוֹפֶ֖רֶת | soferet | Sophereth | H5618 → | |
| בְּנֵ֥י | benei | [the] descendants of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| פְרִידָֽא׃ | ferida' | Perida | H6514 → |
בְּנֵ֖י[the] descendants of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
עַבְדֵ֣י[the] servants of
ʾavdeiH5650 →799 times
שְׁלֹמֹ֑הSolomon
shelomohH8010 →291 times
בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of
benei-H1121 →4930 times
סוֹטַ֥יSotai
sotaiH5479 →
בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of
benei-H1121 →4930 times
סוֹפֶ֖רֶתSophereth
soferetH5618 →
בְּנֵ֥י[the] descendants of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
פְרִידָֽא׃Perida
ferida'H6514 →
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 2:55The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Peruda,
it leads to
- 1 Kings 9:21
their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
- 1 Kings 9:21
Through
Nehemiah 11:3These are the heads of the provinces who settled in Jerusalem. (In the villages of Judah, however, each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of…
it leads to
- Ezra 2:43
The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth,
- 1 Chronicles 9:1–34
So all Israel was recorded in the genealogies written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.
- Nehemiah 7:73
So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, and temple servants, along with some of the people and the rest of the Israelites, settled in their own towns. And by the seventh month the Israelites had…
- Ezra 2:1
Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his…
- Nehemiah 7:6
These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own…
- Ezra 2:43
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This page draws on Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.