Nehemiah 7:43
Other descendants of Levi who returned were: 74 from the clan of Jeshua and Kadmiel, who are descendants of Hodevah who is also known as Hodaviah;
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
In Context
421,017 from the clan of Harim.
44148 singers who are descendants of Asaph.
Cross References
Nehemiah 3:9Next to them, Rephaiah the son of Hur, who ruled half of Jerusalem District, repaired part of the wall.
Nehemiah 11:3Some of the priests, some of the other descendants of Levi, some of the temple workers, and the descendants of King Solomon’s servants, and many of the other people lived on their own property in the towns where their ancestors had lived.
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 →