Nehemiah 7:39
The priests: the children of Idaia in the house of Josue, nine hundred and seventy-three.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
In Context
38The children of Senaa, three thousand nine hundred thirty.
40The children of Emmer, one thousand fifty-two.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 24:11The ninth to Jesua, the tenth to Sechenia,
Nehemiah 11:3These therefore are the chief men of the province, who dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda. And every one dwelt in his possession, in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nathinites, and the children of the servants of Solomon.
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 →