Esra 2:65

Schlachter Bibel

ausgenommen ihre Knechte und ihre Mägde; derer waren 7337; und dazu 200 Sänger und Sängerinnen.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
ausgenommen ihre Knechte und Mägde, derer waren siebentausend dreihundert und siebenunddreißig, dazu zweihundert Sänger und Sängerinnen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

servants: Isaiah 14:1, Isaiah 14:2

two hundred: Exodus 15:20, Exodus 15:21, 2 Samuel 19:35, Nehemiah 7:67, Psalms 68:25, Psalms 148:12, Psalms 148:13, Ecclesiastes 2:8, Jeremiah 9:17, Jeremiah 9:18, Matthew 9:23

Reciprocal: Psalms 147:2 - he

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Besides their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven,.... This shows that the greater part of those that returned were of the poorer sort, since there were so few servants that belonged unto them; these came not into the above account:

and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women; among the servants, who were kept by persons of figure for their pleasure and recreation, see Ecclesiastes 2:8, for that these were such as were employed in sacred service is not so clear, especially the latter, though some conclude it from 1 Chronicles 25:5, but rather they were such as were employed at marriages, festivals, and funerals; though Jarchi thinks they were employed by the returning captives, to make them cheerful as they travelled along, 1 Chronicles 25:5- :.