Ezra 2:55 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵⁵The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,

Ezra 2:55 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 9:21
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.
Nehemiah 7:57
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

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Kohath Korhites Levi Levites Merari Minister, Christian Perida Priest

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. 55)

55. The children of Solomon’s servants--either the strangers that monarch enlisted in the building of the temple, or those who lived in his palace, which was deemed a high honor.