40The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
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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.
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
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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