Ezra Chapter 2 verse 40 Holy Bible
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
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The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
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The Levites: the children of Jeshua and of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
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The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
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The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
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The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
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The Levites; sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 40. - The Levites. The non-priestly Levites are divided into three classes: - 1. Ordinary Levites (ver. 40); 2. Choral Levites (ver. 41); and Levites descended from those who had had the charge of the temple gates (ver. 42). Compare 1 Chronicles 24:20-31; 1 Chronicles 25, and 1 Chron 26:1-19. Of the first class, only two families seem to have returned - those of Jeshua and Kadmiel, both of which traced their descent to a certain Hodaviah, or Judah (Ezra 3:9).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(40) The Levites: the children of Jeshua.--Then follow the Levitical families, not priests: that is, the Levites proper, the singers, the door-keepers or porters. Of the first there were only two families, and these are both traced up to one, that of Hodaviah or Judah (Ezra 3:9) or Hodevah (Nehemiah 7:43). The hereditary choristers are also few: of the families of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the first alone is represented. Nehemiah makes their number twenty more; but 1 Esdras agrees with the text of Ezra.
