Nehemiah 7:44
The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
In Context
43The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 25:2Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur and Joseph and Nethaniah and Asharelah, sons of Asaph; under the direction of Asaph, acting as a prophet under the orders of the king;
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 →