Nehemiah 7:39
The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
In Context
38and the descendants of Senaah, 3,930.
40the descendants of Immer, 1,052;
Cross References
1 Chronicles 24:11the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
Nehemiah 11:3These are the heads of the provinces who settled in Jerusalem. (In the villages of Judah, however, each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants 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 →