Ezra 2:64
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| Overview - Ezra 2 | |
| 1 | The number that return of the people; |
| 36 | of the priests; |
| 40 | of the Levites; |
| 43 | of the Nethinims; |
| 55 | of Solomon's servants; |
| 61 | of the priests who could not shew their pedigree. |
| 64 | The whole number of them, with their substance. |
| 68 | Their oblations. |
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Ezra 2:64 (King James Version)
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
- forty
- Though the sum total, both here and in Nehemiah, is equal, namely, Ezra 2:42 Ezra 2:360 ; yet the particulars reckoned up only make Ezra 2:29 Ezra 2:818 ; in Ezra, and Ezra 2:31 Ezra 2:089 ; in Nehemiah; and we find that
- Nehemiah mentions Ezra 2:1 Ezra 2:765 ; persons who are not in Ezra, and Ezra has 494 ; not mentioned in Nehemiah. This last circumstance, which seems to render all hope of reconciling them impossible, Mr. Alting thinks is the very point by which they can be reconciled; for, if we add Ezra's surplus to the sum in Nehemiah, and Nehemiah's surplus to the number in Ezra, they will both amount to 31,583; which subtracted from Ezra 2:42 Ezra 2:360 ; leaves a deficiency of Ezra 2:10 Ezra 2:777 ; which are not named because they did not belong to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, or to the priests, but to the other Israelitish tribes. 9:8 Nehemiah 7:66-69 ; Isaiah 10:20-22 ; Jeremiah 23:3