Nehemiah 7:57 BSB — MannaFest

Nehemiah 7:57

The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

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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Commentary

1 voice

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.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּנֵ֖י	be.Nei	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
עַבְדֵ֣י	'av.Dei	[the] servants of	H5650 →
שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה	she.lo.Moh	Solomon	H8010 →
בְּנֵי־	be.nei-	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
סוֹטַ֥י	so.Tai	Sotai	H5479 →
בְּנֵי־	be.nei-	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
סוֹפֶ֖רֶת	so.Fe.ret	Sophereth	H5618 →
בְּנֵ֥י	be.Nei	[the] descendants of	H1121 →
פְרִידָֽא׃	fe.ri.Da'	Perida	H6514 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk6

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezra 2:55
The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Peruda,
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.
Through
Nehemiah 11:3
These 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…
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…