Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
camels, four hundred thirty and five; asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
the camels, four hundred and thirty-five; the asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
Nehemiah — The walls rebuilt in fifty-two days; the covenant renewed; the reforms enacted and then re-enacted when Nehemiah returns to find them slipping. A book about civic and spiritual reconstruction side by side.
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Their camels, four hundred thirty and five - After this verse St. Jerome has inserted the following words in the Vulgate: - Hucusque refertur quid in commentario scriptum fuerit; exin Nehemiae historia texitur. Thus far do the words extend which were written in the register; what follows belongs to the history of Nehemiah. But this addition is not found either in the Hebrew or any of the ancient versions. It is wanting also in the Complutum and Paris Polyglots, but is in the Editio Prima of the Vulgate.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
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.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
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.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
