Ezra 2:56-66

56 Jaala, Darkon, Giddel,

57 Shephatiah, Hattil, Pokereth-Hazzebaim, and Ami.

58 Temple support staff and Solomon's servants added up to 392.

59 These are those who came from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer. They weren't able to prove their ancestry, whether they were true Israelites or not:

60 Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda, 652 in all.

61 Likewise with these priestly families: Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai, who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and took that name.

62 They had thoroughly searched for their family records but couldn't find them. And so they were barred from priestly work as ritually unclean.

63 The governor ruled that they could not eat from the holy food until a priest could determine their status with the Urim and Thummim.

64 The total count for the congregation was 42,360.

65 That did not include the male and female slaves, which numbered 7,337. There were also 200 male and female singers,

66 and they had 736 horses, 245 mules,

Ezra 2:56-66 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.