38The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
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And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
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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