Ezra 2:36
Priests who returned: 973 descendants of Jedaiah (that is, those from the family of Jeshua)
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 9:10Some of the priests who returned to Judah were: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jakin,
1 Chronicles 24:11Next, Jeshua was selected. Next, Shecaniah was selected.
Ezra 10:18This is a list of the names of the priests who had married non-Israeli women, and the clans to which they belonged. From the clan of Jeshua and his brothers, who were sons of Jehozadak, there were Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Ezra 10:21From the clan of Harim there were Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.
Nehemiah 7:39973 from the clan of Jedaiah who are descendants of Jeshua;
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 →