Nehemiah 7:66 BSB — MannaFest

Nehemiah 7:66

The whole assembly numbered 42,360,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

The whole assembly together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

KJV

The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

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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 →
הַקָּהָ֖ל	ha.ka.Hal	the assembly	H6951 →
כְּאֶחָ֑ד	ke.'e.Chad	as one	H259 →
אַרְבַּ֣ע	'ar.Ba'	four	H702 →
רִבּ֔וֹא	ri.Bo'	ten thousand	H7239 →
אַלְפַּ֖יִם	'al.Pa.yim	two thousand	H505 →
שְׁלֹשׁ־	she.losh-	three	H7969 →
מֵא֥וֹת	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →
וְשִׁשִּֽׁים׃	ve.shi.Shim	and sixty	H8346 →

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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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.

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Ezra 2:64
The whole assembly numbered 42,360,
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- Jeremiah 23:3
  Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and…
- Ezra 9:8
  But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage,…
- Isaiah 10:20–22
  On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy…
- Nehemiah 7:66–69
  The whole assembly numbered 42,360,

About Nehemiah

Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

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About Nehemiah