Nehemiah 7:43
The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua (through Kadmiel, through the line of Hodevah), 74.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
In Context
42and the descendants of Harim, 1,017.
44The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 148.
Cross References
Nehemiah 3:9Next to them, Rephaiah son of Hur, ruler of a half-district of Jerusalem, made repairs;
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 →