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Ezra 2:36

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— The priests: the sons of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua, 973;
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— The priests, The sons of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— The Priests: sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— The priests: the children of Jadaia of the house of Josue, nine hundred seventy-three.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— The Priests: of the sonnes of Iedaiah of the house of Ieshua, nine hundreth seuentie and three:
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— The Priests. The children of Iedaiah, of the house of Ieshua, nine hundred, seuentie and three.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah, of the house of Joshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And the priests, the sons of Jedua, [belonging to] the house of Jeshua{gr.Jesus}, [were] nine hundred and seventy-three.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— The priests: the children of Yedayah, of the house of Yeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
The priests: 3548
{3548} Prime
כֹּהֵן
kohen
{ko-hane'}
Active participle of H3547; literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman).
the children 1121
{1121} Prime
בֵּן
ben
{bane}
From H1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like H0001, H0251, etc.).
of Yæđa`yà יְדַעיָה, 3048
{3048} Prime
יְדַעְיָה
Y@kda`yah
{yed-ah-yaw'}
From H3045 and H3050; Jah has known; Jedajah, the name of two Israelites.
of the house 1004
{1004} Prime
בַּיִת
bayith
{bah'-yith}
Probably from H1129 abbreviated; a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.).
of Yëšûå` יֵשׁוּעַ, 3442
{3442} Prime
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yeshuwa`
{yay-shoo'-ah}
For H3091; he will save; Jeshua, the name of two Israelites, also of a place in Palestine.
nine 8672
{8672} Prime
תֵּשַׁע
tesha`
{tay'-shah}
The second form is the masculine of the first; perhaps from H8159 through the idea of a turn to the next or full number ten; nine or (ordinal) ninth.
hundred 3967
{3967} Prime
מֵאָה
me'ah
{may-aw'}
Probably a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction.
seventy 7657
{7657} Prime
שִׁבְעִים
shib`iym
{shib-eem'}
Multiple of H7651; seventy.
and three. 7969
{7969} Prime
שָׁלוֹשׁ
shalowsh
{shaw-loshe'}
The last two forms being masculine; a primitive number; three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multiplicative) thrice.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Ezra 2:36-39

_ _ 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 the priests returned from the Babylonish captivity; but these four courses were afterwards, as the families increased, divided into twenty-four, which were distinguished by the names of the original courses appointed by David [1 Chronicles 23:6-13]. Hence we find the course of Abijah or Abia (1 Chronicles 24:10) subsisting at the commencement of the Christian era (Luke 1:5).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

Ezra 2:36-63

_ _ 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 Chronicles 24:7, 1 Chronicles 24:8, 1 Chronicles 24:14. The fourth was Pashur, v. 38. If these were of the posterity of that Pashur that abused Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:1), it is strange that so bad a man should have so good a seed, and so numerous.

_ _ II. Of the Levites. I cannot but wonder at the small number of them, for, taking in both the singers and the porters (Ezra 2:40-42), they did not make 350. Time was when the Levites were more forward to their duty than the priests (2 Chronicles 29:34), but they were not so now. If one place, one family, has the reputation for pious zeal now, another may have it another time. The wind blows where it listeth, and shifts its points.

_ _ III. Of the Nethinim, who, it is supposed, were the Gibeonites, given (so their name signifies) by Joshua first (Joshua 9:27), and again by David (Ezra 8:20), when Saul had expelled them, to be employed by the Levites in the work of God's house as hewers of wood and drawers of water; and, with them, of the children of Solomon's servants, whom he gave for the like use (whether they were Jews or Gentiles does not appear) and who were here taken notice of among the retainers of the temple and numbered with the Nethinim, Ezra 2:55, Ezra 2:58. Note, It is an honour to belong to God's house, though in the meanest office there.

_ _ IV. Of some that were looked upon as Israelites by birth, and others as priests, and yet could not make out a clear title to the honour. 1. There were some that could not prove themselves Israelites (Ezra 2:59, Ezra 2:60), a considerable number, who presumed they were of the seed of Jacob, but could not produce their pedigrees, and yet would go up to Jerusalem, having an affection to the house and people of God. These shamed those who were true-born Israelites, and yet were not called Israelites indeed, who came out of the waters of Judah (Isaiah 48:1), but had lost the relish of those waters. 2. There were others that could not prove themselves priests, and yet were supposed to be of the seed of Aaron. What is not preserved in black and white will, in all likelihood, be forgotten in a little time. Now we are here told, (1.) How they lost their evidence. One of their ancestors married a daughter of Barzillai, that great man whom we read of in David's time; he gloried in an alliance to that honourable family, and, preferring that before the dignity of his priesthood, would have his children called after Barzillai's family, and their pedigree preserved in the registers of that house, not of the house of Aaron, and so they lost it. In Babylon there was nothing to be got by the priesthood, and therefore they cared not for being akin to it. Those who think their ministry, or their relation to ministers, a diminution or disparagement to them, forget who it was that said, I magnify my office. (2.) What they lost with it. It could not be taken for granted that they were priests when they could not produce their proofs, but they were, as polluted, put from the priesthood. Now that the priests had recovered their rights, and had the altar to live upon again, they would gladly be looked upon as priests. But they had sold their birthright for the honour of being gentlemen, and therefore were justly degraded, and forbidden to eat of the most holy things. Note, Christ will be ashamed of those that are ashamed of him and his service. It was the tirshatha, or governor, that put them under this sequestration, which some understand of Zerubbabel the present governor, others of Nehemiah (who is so called, Nehemiah 8:9, Nehemiah 10:1, and who gave this order when he came some years after); but the prohibition was not absolute, it was only a suspension, till there should be a high priest with Urim and Thummin, by whom they might know God's mind in this matter. This, it seems, was expected and desired, but it does not appear that ever they were blessed with it under the second temple. They had the canon of the Old Testament complete, which was better than Urim; and, by the want of that oracle, they were taught to expect the Messiah the great Oracle, which the Urim and Thummim was but a type of. Nor does it appear that the second temple had the ark in it, either the old one or a new one. Those shadows by degrees vanished, as the substance approached; and God, by the prophet, intimates to his people that they should sustain no damage by the want of the ark, Jeremiah 3:16, Jeremiah 3:17. In those days, when they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord, neither shall it come to mind, for they shall do very well without it.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Ezra 2:36

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

(g) Before he has declared the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and now comes to the tribe of Levi and begins at the priests.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
Jedaiah:

1 Chronicles 9:10 And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,
1 Chronicles 24:7 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,

Jeshua:

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.
Nehemiah 7:39 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
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1Ch 9:10; 24:7. Ezr 3:9. Ne 7:39.

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