Ezra 2:36
And the priests, the sons of Jedua, belonging to the house of Jesus, were nine hundred and seventy-three.
Brenton Septuagint
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 Senaa, three thousand six hundred and thirty.
37The children of Emmer, a thousand and fifty-two.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 9:10And of the priests; Jodaë, and Joarim, and Jachin,
1 Chronicles 24:11the ninth to Jesus, the tenth to Sechenias,
Ezra 10:18And there were found some of the sons of the priests who had taken strange wives: of the sons of Jesus the son of Josedec, and his brethren; Maasia, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gadalia.
Ezra 10:21And of the sons of Eram; Masael, and Elia, and Samaia, and Jeel, and Ozia.
Nehemiah 7:39The priests; the sons of Jodae, pertaining to the house of Jesus, 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 →