Ezra 2:36
The priests were: The children of Jeda'yah, of the house of Jeshua', nine hundred seventy and three.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
In Context
35The people of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and thirty.
37The children of Immer, one thousand fifty and two.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 9:10And of the priests: Jeda'yah, and Jehoyarib, and Jachin.
1 Chronicles 24:11For Jeshua' the ninth, for Shechanyahu the tenth,
Ezra 10:18And there were found among the sons of the priests that had brought home strange wives, namely, of the sons of Jeshua' the son of Jozadak, and his brethren: Ma'asseyah, and Eli'ezer, and Jarib, and Gedalyah.
Ezra 10:21And of the sons of Charim: Ma'asseyah, and Elijah, and Shema'yah, and Jechiel, and 'Uzziyah.
Nehemiah 7:39The priests: the children of Jeda'yah, of the house of Jeshua', nine hundred seventy and 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 →