55The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,
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Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
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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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