36The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
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And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, …
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 36-63)Here is an account, I. Of the priests that returned, and they were a considerable number, about a tenth part of the whole company: for the whole were above 42,000 (Ezra 2:64), and four families of priests made up above 4200 (Ezra 2:36-39); thus was the tenth God’s part—a blessed decimation. Three of the fathers of the priests here named were heads of courses, 1 Chron. 24:7 , 8 , 14 . The fourth wa…
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