Nehemiah 7:43
This is the number of the Levites: the sons of Jeshua through Kadmiel (sons of Hodaviah), 74;
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
In Context
44the singers of the sons of Asaph, 148;
Cross References
Nehemiah 3:9Next was Rephaiah, son of Hur, ruler of a Jerusalem half-district.
Nehemiah 11:3This is a list of the leaders of the province who came to live in Jerusalem. (Most of the Israelites lived on their own property in the towns of Judah. This included the priests, the Levites, the Temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon's servants who lived in their home towns.
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 →