Ezra 2:58

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“The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.”

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BSBPD

“The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“All the Nethinim, and the sons of the servants of Solomon <FI>are<Fi> three hundred ninety and two.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezra 2:58 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Joshua 9:21They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation.” So the leaders kept their promise.
  2. Joshua 9:23Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
  3. Joshua 9:27On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.
  4. 1 Kings 9:20As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—
  5. 1 Kings 9:21their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
  6. 1 Chronicles 9:2Now the first to resettle their own property in their cities were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.
  7. Ezra 7:7So in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, he went up to Jerusalem with some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants.
  8. Nehemiah 3:26and the temple servants living on the hill of Ophel made repairs opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the tower that juts out.
  9. Nehemiah 7:60The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.
  10. Ecclesiastes 2:7I acquired menservants and maidservants, and servants were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me,

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