Nehemiah 7:68

68 They had seven hundred thirty-six horses, two hundred forty-five mules,

Nehemiah 7:68 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 7:68

(See Gill on Nehemiah 7:6).

Nehemiah 7:68 In-Context

66 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
67 besides their male and female slaves, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred forty-five singers, male and female.
68 They had seven hundred thirty-six horses, two hundred forty-five mules,
69 four hundred thirty-five camels, and six thousand seven hundred twenty donkeys.
70 Now some of the heads of ancestral houses contributed to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priestly robes.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Ezra 2.66 and the margins of some Hebrew Mss: MT lacks [They had . . . forty-five mules]
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