Nehemiah 7
AMP
Commentaries

Show in the text

Up to 5 commentaries at a time. Each excerpt opens in full.

Amplified Bible

Nehemiah 7:63-73

63Of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzillai, who [was so named because he had] married one of the daughters of Barzillai, the [well-known] Gileadite, and was named after them.

64These men searched for their ancestral registration among those recorded in the genealogies, but it was not located; so they were excluded from the priesthood as [ceremonially] unclean.

65The governor told them that they should not eat any of the most holy food until a priest arose with Urim and Thummim [to determine God’s will in the matter].

66The entire assembly together was 42,360,

67besides their male and their female servants, of whom there were 7,337; and they had 245 male and female singers.

68Their horses were 736; their mules, 245;

69their camels, 435; their donkeys, 6,720.

70Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 gold drachmas, 50 basins, 530 priests’ garments.

71Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave to the treasury for the work 20,000 gold drachmas and 2,200 silver minas.

72And what the rest of the people gave was 20,000 gold drachmas, 2,000 silver minas, and 67 priests’ garments.

73So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, along with all Israel, lived in their cities. And when the seventh month came, the sons (descendants) of Israel (Jacob) were in their cities.

Read all of Nehemiah 7

Commentaries on Nehemiah 7

Amplified Bible — © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631