Nehemiah 7:29
The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The men of Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.
In Context
28The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two.
30The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.
Cross References
Joshua 9:17And the children of Israel went forward on their journey, and on the third day came to their towns. Now their towns were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.
Judges 18:12And they went up and put up their tents in Kiriath-jearim in Judah: so that place is named Mahaneh-dan to this day. It is to the west of Kiriath-jearim.
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 7:6-73
The Register of the Captives. ( b. c. 445.) 5 And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein, 6 These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his… Read the whole commentary →