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<span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>the sons of Immer, 1,052; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>the sons of Pashhur, 1,247; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>the sons of Harim, 1,017. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Levites Returning</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, 74. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>The singers: the sons of Asaph, 128. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, in all 139. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>the sons of Keros, the sons of Siaha, the sons of Padon, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-45.htm" target="_top"><b>45</b></a></span>the sons of Lebanah, the sons of Hagabah, the sons of Akkub, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-46.htm" target="_top"><b>46</b></a></span>the sons of Hagab, the sons of Shalmai, the sons of Hanan, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-47.htm" target="_top"><b>47</b></a></span>the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, the sons of Reaiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-48.htm" target="_top"><b>48</b></a></span>the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda, the sons of Gazzam, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-49.htm" target="_top"><b>49</b></a></span>the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-50.htm" target="_top"><b>50</b></a></span>the sons of Asnah, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephisim, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-51.htm" target="_top"><b>51</b></a></span>the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-52.htm" target="_top"><b>52</b></a></span>the sons of Bazluth, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-53.htm" target="_top"><b>53</b></a></span>the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-54.htm" target="_top"><b>54</b></a></span>the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-55.htm" target="_top"><b>55</b></a></span>The sons of Solomons servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-56.htm" target="_top"><b>56</b></a></span>the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-57.htm" target="_top"><b>57</b></a></span>the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the sons of Ami. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-58.htm" target="_top"><b>58</b></a></span>All the temple servants and the sons of Solomons servants were 392. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-59.htm" target="_top"><b>59</b></a></span>Now these are those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan <i>and</i> Immer, but they were not able to give evidence of their fathers households and their descendants, whether they were of Israel: <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-60.htm" target="_top"><b>60</b></a></span>the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 652. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Priests Removed</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-61.htm" target="_top"><b>61</b></a></span>Of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and he was called by their name. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-62.htm" target="_top"><b>62</b></a></span>These searched <i>among</i> their ancestral registration, but they could not be located; therefore they were considered unclean <i>and excluded</i> from the priesthood. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-63.htm" target="_top"><b>63</b></a></span>The governor said to them that they should not eat from the most holy things until a priest stood up with Urim and Thummim. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-64.htm" target="_top"><b>64</b></a></span>The whole assembly numbered 42,360, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-65.htm" target="_top"><b>65</b></a></span>besides their male and female servants who numbered 7,337; and they had 200 singing men and women. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-66.htm" target="_top"><b>66</b></a></span>Their horses were 736; their mules, 245; <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-67.htm" target="_top"><b>67</b></a></span>their camels, 435; <i>their</i> donkeys, 6,720. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-68.htm" target="_top"><b>68</b></a></span>Some of the heads of fathers <i>households,</i> when they arrived at the house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to restore it on its foundation. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-69.htm" target="_top"><b>69</b></a></span>According to their ability they gave to the treasury for the work 61,000 gold drachmas and 5,000 silver minas and 100 priestly garments. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezra/2-70.htm" target="_top"><b>70</b></a></span>Now the priests and the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers and the temple servants lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezra/2.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezra/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The priests: the children of Jadaia of the house of Josue, nine hundred seventy-three. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/ezra/2.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezra/2.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezra/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezra/2.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezra/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> The Priests: sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/altar_and_temple.htm">Altar and Temple</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. 2. Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God. 3. And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_g/altar_and_temple.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/schaff/history_of_the_christian_church_volume_i/section_101_the_apocalypse.htm">The Apocalypse. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">On the Lit. and life of John, see §§ 40 and 41 (this vol.); on the authorship of the Apoc. and the time of composition, § 37 (this vol.); § 41 (this vol.); and § 84 (this vol.) 1. Modern Critical, works of German and French scholars on the Apocalypse: Lücke (Voltständige Einleitung, etc., 2d ed., 1852; 1,074 pages of introductory matter, critical and historical; compare with it the review of Bleek in the "Studien and Kritiken" for 1854 and 1855); DeWette Com., 1848, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/schaff/history_of_the_christian_church_volume_i/section_101_the_apocalypse.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Philip Schaff—</span><span class="citation2">History of the Christian Church, Volume I</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/milligan/men_of_the_bible_some_lesser-known/barzillai.htm">Barzillai</a><br></span><span class="snippet">BY REV. GEORGE MILLIGAN, M.A., D.D. "There is nothing," says Socrates to Cephalus in the Republic, "I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom it is right to learn the character of the way, whether it is rugged or difficult, or smooth and easy" (p. 328 E.). It is to such an aged traveller that we are introduced in the person of Barzillai the Gileadite. And though he is one of the lesser-known characters <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/milligan/men_of_the_bible_some_lesser-known/barzillai.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">George Milligan—</span><span class="citation2">Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_xx_the_historical_books.htm">The Historical Books. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">1. In the Pentateuch we have the establishment of the Theocracy, with the preparatory and accompanying history pertaining to it. The province of the historical books is to unfold its practiced working, and to show how, under the divine superintendence and guidance, it accomplished the end for which it was given. They contain, therefore, primarily, a history of God's dealings with the covenant people under the economy which he had imposed upon them. They look at the course of human events on the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/barrows/companion_to_the_bible/chapter_xx_the_historical_books.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">E. P. Barrows—</span><span class="citation2">Companion to the Bible</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/davidson/the_canon_of_the_bible/chapter_ii_the_old_testament.htm">The Old Testament Canon from Its Beginning to Its Close. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">The first important part of the Old Testament put together as a whole was the Pentateuch, or rather, the five books of Moses and Joshua. This was preceded by smaller documents, which one or more redactors embodied in it. The earliest things committed to writing were probably the ten words proceeding from Moses himself, afterwards enlarged into the ten commandments which exist at present in two recensions (Exod. xx., Deut. v.) It is true that we have the oldest form of the decalogue from the Jehovist <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/davidson/the_canon_of_the_bible/chapter_ii_the_old_testament.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Samuel Davidson—</span><span class="citation2">The Canon of the Bible</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/chap_v_1.htm">And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, too little to be among the thousands of Judah</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, too little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall come forth unto Me (one) [Pg 480] to be Ruler in Israel; and His goings forth are the times of old, the days of eternity." The close connection of this verse with what immediately precedes (Caspari is wrong in considering iv. 9-14 as an episode) is evident, not only from the [Hebrew: v] copulative, and from the analogy of the near relation of the announcement of salvation to the prophecy of disaster <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/hengstenberg/christology_of_the_old_testament/chap_v_1.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—</span><span class="citation2">Christology of the Old Testament</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_45_the_return_of.htm">The Return of the Exiles</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The advent of the army of Cyrus before the walls of Babylon was to the Jews a sign that their deliverance from captivity was drawing nigh. More than a century before the birth of Cyrus, Inspiration had mentioned him by name, and had caused a record to be made of the actual work he should do in taking the city of Babylon unawares, and in preparing the way for the release of the children of the captivity. Through Isaiah the word had been spoken: "Thus saith the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_45_the_return_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Story of Prophets and Kings</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/ezra-nehemiah.htm">Ezra-Nehemiah</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Some of the most complicated problems in Hebrew history as well as in the literary criticism of the Old Testament gather about the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Apart from these books, all that we know of the origin and early history of Judaism is inferential. They are our only historical sources for that period; and if in them we have, as we seem to have, authentic memoirs, fragmentary though they be, written by the two men who, more than any other, gave permanent shape and direction to Judaism, then <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/ezra-nehemiah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezra/2-36.htm">Ezra 2:36 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/ezra/2-36.htm">Ezra 2:36 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/ezra/2-36.htm">Ezra 2:36 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/ezra/2-36.htm">Ezra 2:36 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/ezra/2-36.htm">Ezra 2:36 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezra/2-36.htm">Ezra 2:36 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/ezra/2-36.htm">Ezra 2:36 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezra/2-35.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezra 2:35"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezra 2:35" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezra/2-37.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezra 2:37"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezra 2:37" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/ezra/2-36.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>