Nehemiah 7:68
in Nehemiah 7They had 736 horses, 245 mules,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
KJV
Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:
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This verse in Nehemiah 7
Commentary
4 notes on this verseTheir horses, etc. - The whole of this verse is wanting in fifty of Kennicott’s MSS., and in twenty-nine of those of De Rossi, in the edition of Rab. Chayim, 1525, in the Roman Edit. of the Septuagint; also in the Syriac and in the Arabic. It should however be observed, that the Arabic omits the whole list, having nothing of the chapter but the first five verses. The whole is found in the parallel place, Ezr 2:66. Calmet’s note on this passage is incorrect.
This site's exposition
The whole congregation together
on Nehemiah 7:66-69
The final tally counts the whole congregation together at forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, then adds servants, singers and livestock, horses, mules, camels and asses down to the last count. Ezra's parallel register gives the same total, 42,360, though the two chapters' own family sums do not add up to that number identically in either book, a gap the commentators note without resolving. A remnant this small is still counted to the animal, because every returning household mattered enough to write down.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאַרְבָּעִ֥ים | vearbaim | and forty | H705 → | 136 times |
| וַחֲמִשָּֽׁה׃ ס | vachamishah | and five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| סוּסֵיהֶם | suseihem | horses their | H5483 → | |
| שְׁבַע | sheva' | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| מֵאוֹת | meot | hundred<s> | H3967 → | 581 times |
| שְׁלֹשִׁים | sheloshim | thirty | H7970 → | 172 times |
| וְשִׁשָּׁה | veshishah | and six | H8337 → | 216 times |
| פִּרְדֵיהֶם | pirdeihem | mules their | H6505 → | |
| מָאתַיִם | matayim | two hundred | H3967 → | 581 times |
וְאַרְבָּעִ֥יםand forty
vearbaimH705 →136 times
וַחֲמִשָּֽׁה׃ סand five
vachamishahH2568 →343 times
סוּסֵיהֶםhorses their
suseihemH5483 →
שְׁבַעseven
sheva'H7651 →394 times
מֵאוֹתhundred<s>
meotH3967 →581 times
שְׁלֹשִׁיםthirty
sheloshimH7970 →172 times
וְשִׁשָּׁהand six
veshishahH8337 →216 times
פִּרְדֵיהֶםmules their
pirdeihemH6505 →
מָאתַיִםtwo hundred
matayimH3967 →581 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Nehemiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.