Ezra 2:5
The sons of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
In Context
4The sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
6The sons of Pahath-moab, of the sons of Jeshua [and] Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Cross References
Nehemiah 6:18For there were many in Judah sworn to him because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah to wife.
Matthew Henry on Ezra 2:2-36
The Return of the Captives. ( b. c. 536.) 1 Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city; 2 Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: 3 The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy… Read the whole commentary →