Ezra 2:36
The priests: descendants of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua: 973.
Unlocked Literal Bible
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 9:10The priests were Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, and Jakin.
1 Chronicles 24:11the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
Ezra 10:18Among the descendants of the priests there were those who had lived with foreign women. Among the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers there were Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Ezra 10:21Among the descendants of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.
Nehemiah 7:39The priests: The descendants of Jedaiah (of the house of Jeshua), 973.
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 →