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Ezra 2:57-67

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57 the descendants[a] of Shephatiah, the descendants[b] of Hattil, the descendants[c] of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the descendants[d] of Ami.
58 All the temple servants and the descendants[e] of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.
59 Now these were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they were not able to prove their fathers' household and their descent, if they were from Israel:
60 the descendants[f] of Delaiah, the descendants[g] of Tobiah, and the descendants[h] of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two.
61 And from the descendants[i] of the priests: the descendants[j] of Habaiah, the descendants[k] of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai (who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name).
62 These sought their record in the genealogy [records], but they were not found, and {were excluded from the priesthood as unclean}.
63 The governor said to them that they could not eat from the holy food of the sanctuary until there was present a priest for the Urim and Thummim.
64 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty,
65 apart from their male and female servants, of whom were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred male and female singers.
66 Their horses [numbered] seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules [numbered] two hundred and forty-five,
67 their camels [numbered] four hundred and thirty-five, their donkeys [numbered] six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
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Ezra 2:57-67 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZRA 2

This chapter contains a list of those that went up from Babylon to Jerusalem, of their leaders, their chief men, princes and priests, Ezr 2:1,2 of the people, described by their families, towns, and cities, and number of persons, Ezr 2:3-35, of the priests, Levites, and Nethinims, Ezr 2:36-58, and of those that could not make out their genealogy, people and priests, Ezr 2:59-63, and then the sum total of the whole congregation is given, Ezr 2:64, besides men and maidservants, singing men and women, and cattle of divers sorts, Ezr 2:65-67, and the chapter is closed with an account of the freewill offerings of the principal men towards the building of the temple, and of the settlement of the people in their respective cities, Ezr 2:68-70.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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