the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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以斯拉记 2:64
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回歸者的總數（尼7:66~69）全體會眾共有四萬二千三百六十人。
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forty: Though the sum total, both here and in Nehemiah, is equal, namely, 42,360, yet the particulars reckoned up only make 29,818 in Ezra, and 31,089 in Nehemiah; and we find that Nehemiah mentions 1,765 persons who are not in Ezra, and Ezra has 494 not mentioned in Nehemiah. This last circumstance, which seems to render all hope of reconciling them impossible, Mr. Alting thinks is the very point by which they can be reconciled; for, if we add Ezra's surplus to the sum in Nehemiah, and Nehemiah's surplus to the number in Ezra, they will both amount to 31,583; which subtracted from 42,360, leaves a deficiency of 10,777, which are not named because they did not belong to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, or to the priests, but to the other Israelitish tribes. Ezra 9:8, Nehemiah 7:66-69, Isaiah 10:20-22, Jeremiah 23:3
Reciprocal: Psalms 147:2 - he
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred [and] threescore. But the sums before given make no more, with Zerubbabel, and the ten principal men, than 29,829, so that there are more than 12,000 wanting; wherefore, in answer to the question, where are the 12,000? the Jews say in their chronology a these are they of the other tribes, who set up the altar on its bases, and gave money to the masons, c. Ezra 3:1, this was a much larger number than were carried captive see 2 Kings 24:14, but not to be compared with the number that came out of Egypt, Exodus 12:37. An Arabic writer b makes them 50,000, but wrongly.
a Seder Olam Rabba, c. 29. p. 86. b Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 5. p. 82.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The sum total is given without any variation by Ezra, by Nehemiah (see the marginal reference), and by Esdras (1 Esdras 5:41), who adds, that in this reckoning only those of twelve years of age and upward were counted.
It is curious that the total 42,360, is so greatly in excess of the items. Ezraâs items make the number 29,818; Nehemiahâs 31,089, Esdras, 33,950. The original document was probably illegible in places, and the writers were forced to make omissions.
