Nehemiah 7:43
The Levites, The sons of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodevah, seventy-four;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.
In Context
42The sons of Harim, a thousand, and seventeen;
44The singers, The sons of Asaph, a hundred, and forty-eight;
Cross References
Nehemiah 3:9and, at their hand, repaired, Rephaiah son of Hur, ruler of a half-circuit of Jerusalem;
Nehemiah 11:3Now, these, are the chiefs of the province, who dwelt in Jerusalem, but, in the cities of Judah, dwelt every man in his possession throughout their cities, Israel, the priests, and the Levites and the Nethinim, and the Sons of the Servants of Solomon.
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 →