Ezra 2:23-33

23 The people of Anathoth 128

24 The people of Beth-azmaveth 42

25 The people of Kiriath-jearim, Kephirah, and Beeroth 743

26 The people of Ramah and Geba 621

27 The people of Micmash 122

28 The people of Bethel and Ai 223

29 The citizens of Nebo 52

30 The citizens of Magbish 156

31 The citizens of West Elam 1,254

32 The citizens of Harim 320

33 The citizens of Lod, Hadid, and Ono 725

Ezra 2:23-33 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.

Footnotes

• [a] As in parallel text at Neh 7:28 ; Hebrew reads Azmaveth.
• [b] As in some Hebrew manuscripts and Greek version (see also Neh 7:29 ); Hebrew reads Kiriath-arim.
• [c] Or of the other Elam.