Nehemiah 7:43
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
In Context
42The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.
44The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.
Cross References
Nehemiah 3:9Near them was working Rephaiah, the son of Hur, the ruler of half Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 11:3Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.
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 →