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JPSThe children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
ASVThe children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
DRAThe children of Cariathiarim, Cephira, and Beroth, seven hundred forty-three.
YLTSons of Kirjath-Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
DrbyThe children of Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.
RVThe children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
WbstrThe children of Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
KJB-1769The children of Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
KJB-1611The children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seuen hundred, and fourtie and three. (The children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred, and forty and three.)
BshpsThe children of Kiriathiarim, euen the children of Cephira and Beeroth, seuen hundred fouretie and three. (The children of Kiryath-yearim, even the children of Cephira and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.)
GnvaThe sonnes of Kiriath-arim, of Chephirah, and Beeroth, seuen hundreth and three and fourtie: (The sons of Kiriath-arim, of Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundreth and three and forty: )
Cvdlthe children off Kiriath Arim, Caphira and Beeroth, seuen hundreth and thre and fortye: (the children off Kiriath Arim, Caphira and Beeroth, seven hundreth and three and forty:)
Wyclthe sones of Cariathiarym, Cephiara, and Berhoc, seuene hundrid and thre and fourti; (the sons of Kiryath-yearim, Cephiara, and Berhoc, seven hundred and three and forty;)
Luthder Kinder von Kiriath-Arim, Kaphira und Beeroth siebenhundert und dreiundvierzig; (der children from Kiriath-Arim, Kaphira and Beeroth siebenhundert and threeundvierzig;)
ClVgFilii Cariathiarim, Cephira et Beroth, septingenti quadraginta tres. (Children Cariathiarim, Cephira and Beroth, septingenti quadraginta tres. )
2:1-70 This chapter is the first of Ezra’s major digressions from the main story line. The returning exiles needed to keep track of who the true Jews were so that the community could maintain its identity (by knowing whom they could marry) and theological purity (by knowing who could worship at the Temple). This list is not an initial list (cp. Neh 7:6-73) of all the Jews who returned to Jerusalem but a slightly later list (after Sheshbazzar had died) of people who had settled in their towns.
The list speaks here of the sons of Kirjath-Arim, Kephirah, and Beeroth. This is an idiom that means that these men were from families that had originally lived in those towns. Alternate translation: “From the towns of Kirjath-Arim, Kephirah, and Beeroth”
The Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem, where all Israelite males were commanded to offer sacrifices to the Lord (Exodus 23:14-19; Deuteronomy 16:16-17), underwent several stages of reconstruction and development over hundreds of years. The first Temple was built by King Solomon to replace the aging Tabernacle, and it was constructed on a threshing floor on high ground on the north side of the city (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21). Hundreds of years later King Hezekiah expanded the platform surrounding the Temple. When Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 B.C., the Temple was completely destroyed (2 Kings 25:1-21; 2 Chronicles 36:17-21; Jeremiah 39:1-10; 52:1-30). It was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after a group of Jews returned to Judea from exile in Babylon (Ezra 1:5-6:15; Nehemiah 7:5-65). Herod the Great completely rebuilt and expanded the Temple once again around 20 B.C., making it one of the largest temples in the Roman world. Jesus’ first believers often met together in Solomon’s Colonnade, a columned porch that encircled the Temple Mount, perhaps carrying on a tradition started by Jesus himself (John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12). But Herod’s Temple did not last long: After many Jews revolted against Rome, the Romans eventually recaptured Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple in A.D. 70.
