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href="../ezra/2-57.htm" title="Ezra 2:57">◄</a> Ezra 2:58 <a href="../ezra/2-59.htm" title="Ezra 2:59">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, <i>were</i> three hundred ninety and two.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/ezra/2.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/ezra/2.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/ezra/2.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/ezra/2.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/ezra/2.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/ezra/2.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezra/2.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> 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Those who have no evidence that they are, by the new birth, spiritual priests unto God, through Jesus Christ, have no right to the comforts and privileges of Christians.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/ezra/2.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>The Nethinims - The hieroduli or sacred slaves, "given" to the Levites to assist them in their work (see <a href="/1_chronicles/9-2.htm">1 Chronicles 9:2</a> note). <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/ezra/2.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>55. The children of Solomon's servants—either the strangers that monarch enlisted in the building of the temple, or those who lived in his palace, which was deemed a high honor.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/ezra/2.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/ezra/2.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>The Nethinims,.... Supposed by Aben Ezra and Jarchi to be the Gibeonites, who were "given" by Joshua, as the word Nethinims signifies, to the congregation, to be hewers of wood and drawers of water; but rather were those that were given by David to assist the Levites; of these is an account from hence to the end of <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58</a>, together with those who descended from Solomon's servants, who seem to be the remains of the Canaanites in the land, whom Solomon made bondservants of, <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/9-20.htm">1 Kings 9:20</a>, who, and their posterity, became proselytes; or those sprung from men that were domestic servants of Solomon's, and valued themselves on that account; the number of the Nethinims and these together were three hundred ninety and two. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/ezra/2.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div>Ezra 2:58<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/ezra/2.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>The Nethinim, i.e., temple-bondsmen, and the servants of Solomon, are reckoned together, thirty-five families of Nethinim and ten of the servants of Solomon being specified. The sum-total of these amounting only to 392, each family could only have averaged from eight to nine individuals. The sons of Akkub, Hagab and Asnah (<a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/2-45.htm">Ezra 2:45</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/2-46.htm">Ezra 2:46</a>, and <a href="/ezra/2-50.htm">Ezra 2:50</a>), are omitted in Nehemiah; the name Shalmai (<a href="/ezra/2-46.htm">Ezra 2:46</a>) is in <a href="/nehemiah/7-48.htm">Nehemiah 7:48</a> written Salmai; and for נפיסים, <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/2-50.htm">Ezra 2:50</a>, <a href="/nehemiah/7-52.htm">Nehemiah 7:52</a> has נפושׁסים, a form combined from נפוּסים and נפישׁים. All other variations relate only to differences of form. Because Ziha (ציהא, <a href="/ezra/2-43.htm">Ezra 2:43</a>) again occurs in <a href="/nehemiah/11-21.htm">Nehemiah 11:21</a> as one of the chiefs of the Nethinim, and the names following seem to stand in the same series with it, Bertheau insists on regarding these names as those of divisions. This cannot, however, be correct; for Ziha is in <a href="/nehemiah/11-21.htm">Nehemiah 11:21</a> the name of an individual, and in the present list also the proper names are those of individuals, and only the sons of Ziha, Hasupha, etc., can be called families or divisions. Plural words alone, Mehunim and Nephisim, are names of races or nations; hence the sons of the Mehunim signify individuals belonging to the Mehunim, who, perhaps, after the victory of King Uzziah over that people, were as prisoners of war made vassals for the service of the sanctuary. So likewise may the sons of the Nephisim have been prisoners of war of the Ishmaelite race נפישׁ. Most of the families here named may, however, have been descendants of the Gibeonites (<a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/9-21.htm">Joshua 9:21</a>, <a href="/joshua/9-27.htm">Joshua 9:27</a>). The servants of Solomon must not be identified with the Canaanite bond-servants mentioned <a href="/1_kings/9-20.htm">1 Kings 9:20</a>., <a href="/2_chronicles/8-7.htm">2 Chronicles 8:7</a>., but were probably prisoners of war of some other nation, whom Solomon sentenced to perform, as bondsmen, similar services to those imposed upon the Gibeonites. The sons of these servants are again mentioned in <a href="/nehemiah/11-3.htm">Nehemiah 11:3</a>. In other passages they are comprised under the general term Nethinim, with whom they are here computed. Among the names, that of הצּבים פּכרת (<a href="/ezra/2-57.htm">Ezra 2:57</a>), i.e., catcher of gazelles, is a singular one; the last name, אמי, is in <a href="/nehemiah/7-59.htm">Nehemiah 7:59</a> אמון. <div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58 Interlinear</a><br /><a href="/texts/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58 Parallel Texts</a><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/niv/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://bibleapps.com/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58 Parallel</a><br /><a href="http://bibliaparalela.com/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="http://holybible.com.cn/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="http://saintebible.com/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58 French Bible</a><br /><a href="http://bibeltext.com/ezra/2-58.htm">Ezra 2:58 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td align="center"><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="../ezra/2-57.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezra 2:57"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezra 2:57" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezra/2-59.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezra 2:59"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezra 2:59" /></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> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>