Ezra 2:58-68

58 All the ¹temple servants and the sons of ²Solomon's servants were 392 * * *.

59 Now these are those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, ^[a]Addan and Immer, but they were not able to ^[b]give evidence of their fathers' households and their ^[c]descendants, whether they were of Israel:

60 the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 652 * * *.

Priests Removed

61 Of the sons of the priests: the sons of ^[d]Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of ³Barzillai, who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and he was called by their name.

62 These searched among their ancestral registration *, but they could not be located; ⁴therefore they were considered unclean and excluded from the priesthood.

63 The governor said to them ⁵that they should not eat from the most holy things until a priest stood up with ⁶Urim and Thummim.

64 The whole assembly numbered 42,360 * * * * *,

65 besides * their male and female servants * who numbered 7,337 * * * * *; and they had 200 ⁷singing men and women.

66 Their horses were 736 * *; their mules, 245 * *;

67 their camels, 435 * * *; their donkeys, 6,720 * * * *.

68 Some of the heads of fathers' households, when they arrived at the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to restore it on its foundation.

Ezra 2:58-68 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.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Chronicles 9:2
• 2. 1 Kings 9:21
• 3. 2 Samuel 17:27; 1 Kings 2:7
• 4. Numbers 16:39, 40
• 5. Leviticus 2:3, 10
• 6. Exodus 28:30; Numbers 27:21
• 7. 2 Chronicles 35:25

Footnotes

• [a] In Neh 7:61, "Addon"
• [b] Lit "tell"
• [c] Lit "seed"
• [d] In Neh 7:63, "Hobaiah"
• [e] Heb "Tirshatha," a Persian title
• [f] Lit "together was"
• [g] Lit "they were"
• [h] Lit "establish"