Nehemiah 7:60 BSB — MannaFest

Nehemiah 7:60

The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

KJV

All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

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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
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הַ֨נְּתִינִ֔ים	ha.ne.ti.Nim	the temple servants	H5411 →
וּבְנֵ֖י	u.ve.Nei	and [the] descendants of	H1121 →
עַבְדֵ֣י	'av.Dei	[the] servants of	H5650 →
שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה	she.lo.Moh	Solomon	H8010 →
שְׁלֹ֥שׁ	she.Losh	three	H7969 →
מֵא֖וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
תִּשְׁעִ֥ים	tish.'Im	ninety	H8673 →
וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ פ	u.she.Na.yim	and two	H8147 →

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The walk

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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 2:58
The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 9:2
  Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
- 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.
- Joshua 9:21
  They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation.” So the leaders kept their promise.
- Joshua 9:23
  Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
- Joshua 9:27
  On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.