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Nehemiah 7:40

in Nehemiah 7

the descendants of Immer, 1,052;

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.

KJV

The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.

This verse in Nehemiah 7

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

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.

This site's exposition

the descendants of Jedaiah

on Nehemiah 7:39-45

The register turns from the laity to the temple. Only four of the priestly courses David organized returned from Babylon, and those four were later divided to restore the full twenty-four. Luke's Gospel finds one of the restored courses, "the priestly division of Abijah," serving centuries later.

This site's exposition

the descendants of Immer

Immer is the second of the four priestly families, 1,052 strong in both registers. Pashhur son of Immer, the chief official who had Jeremiah beaten and put in the stocks, came from this house, Jeremiah 20:1-2. Zadok son of Immer rebuilt opposite his house, 3:29.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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.

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] descendants of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • אִמֵּ֔רImmer

    ʾimerH564 →10 times

  • אֶ֖לֶףone thousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • חֲמִשִּׁ֥יםfifty

    chamishimH2572 →163 times

  • וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ סand two

    ushenayimH8147 →768 times

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

The walk

3 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

    1 Chronicles 24:14

    the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,

    it leads to

    • Ezra 10:20

      From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Ezra 2:37

      the descendants of Immer, 1,052;

  • Through

    Ezra 2:37

    the descendants of Immer, 1,052;

    it leads to

Where this verse is studied

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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 Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.