Ezra 2:36 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁶The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

Ezra 2:36 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 9:10
And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
Ezra 3:9
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.
1 Chronicles 24:7-18
Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, …
Nehemiah 7:39
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

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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 was P…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 36)

36-39. The priests--Each of their families was ranged under its prince or head, like those of the other tribes. It will be remembered that the whole body was divided into twenty-four courses, one of which, in rotation, discharged the sacerdotal duties every week, and each division was called after the name of its first prince or chief. It appears from this passage that only four of the courses of…