Nehemiah 7:39
The priests: sons of Jedaiah: of the house of Jeshua: nine hundred seventy and three;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
In Context
38Sons of Senaah: three thousand nine hundred and thirty.
40sons of Immer: a thousand fifty and two;
Cross References
1 Chronicles 24:11for Jeshuah the ninth, for Shecaniah the tenth,
Nehemiah 11:3And these [are] heads of the province who have dwelt in Jerusalem, and in cities of Judah, they have dwelt each in his possession in 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 →