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Nehemiah 7:67

in Nehemiah 7

in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 245 male and female singers.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.

KJV

Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.

This verse in Nehemiah 7

Commentary

2 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.

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

14 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.

  • מִ֠לְּבַד<from> <to> besides

    milevadH905 →

  • עַבְדֵיהֶ֤םmale servants their

    ʾavdeihemH5650 →799 times

  • וְאַמְהֹֽתֵיהֶם֙and female servants their

    veamhoteihemH519 →

  • אֵ֔לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • שִׁבְעַ֣ת[were] seven

    shivatH7651 →394 times

  • אֲלָפִ֔יםthousand<s>

    ʾalafimH505 →505 times

  • שְׁלֹ֥שׁthree

    sheloshH7969 →432 times

  • מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

  • שְׁלֹשִׁ֣יםthirty

    sheloshimH7970 →172 times

  • וְשִׁבְעָ֑הand seven

    veshivahH7651 →394 times

  • וְלָהֶ֗םand [belonged] to them

    velahem

  • מְשֹֽׁרֲרִים֙male singers

    meshorarimH7891 →86 times

  • וּמְשֹׁ֣רֲר֔וֹתand female singers

    umeshorarotH7891 →86 times

  • מָאתַ֖יִםtwo hundred

    matayimH3967 →581 times

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

The walk

8 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

    Jeremiah 27:7

    All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 52:31

      On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned…

    • Isaiah 14:4–6

      you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!

    • Zechariah 2:8–9

      For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—

    • Revelation 13:5–10

      The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.

    • Jeremiah 25:11–14

      And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

  • Through

    Ezra 2:65

    in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 200 male and female singers.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 19:35

      I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men…

    • Psalms 68:25

      The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.

    • 2 Chronicles 35:25

      Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in…

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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 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.