Ezra 2:36
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
In Context
35The children of Senaah, three thousand, six hundred and thirty.
37The children of Immer, a thousand and fifty-two.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 9:10And of the priests: Jedaiah and Jehoiarib and Jachin
1 Chronicles 24:11The ninth Jeshua, the tenth Shecaniah,
Ezra 10:18And among the sons of the priests who were married to strange women were these: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak and his brothers, Maaseiah and Eliezer and Jarib and Gedaliah.
Ezra 10:21And of the sons of Harim, Maaseiah and Elijah and Shemaiah and Jehiel and Uzziah.
Nehemiah 7:39The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the family of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.
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 →