King James Version
What Does Ezra 2:60 Mean?
“The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.”
Context
58
All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
59
And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: Addan: or, Addon seed: or, pedigree
60
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.
61
And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:
62
These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood. were they: Heb. they were polluted from the priesthood
Commentary
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible CommentaryCHAPTER 24
2Ch 24:1-14. Joash Reigns Well All the Days of Jehoiada.
**1-3. Joash ... began to reign--**(See on 2Ki 12:1-3).
Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown. Public Domain.
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