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JPSThe priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
ASVThe priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
DRAThe priests: the children of Jadaia of the house of Josue, nine hundred seventy-three.
YLTThe Priests: sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
DrbyThe priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.
RVThe priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
WbstrThe priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
KJB-1769¶ The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.
KJB-1611¶ [fn]The Priests. The children of Iedaiah, of the house of Ieshua, nine hundred, seuentie and three. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation and footnotes)
BshpsThe priestes: of the children of Iedaia of the house of Iesua, nine hundred seuentie and three. (The priests: of the children of Yedaia of the house of Yesus/Yeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.)
GnvaThe Priests: of the sonnes of Iedaiah of the house of Ieshua, nine hundreth seuentie and three: (The Priests: of the sons of Yedaiah of the house of Yeshua, nine hundreth seventy and three: )
CvdlThe prestes. The children of Iedaia of the house of Iesua, nyne hundreth and thre and seuentye: (The priests. The children of Yedaia of the house of Yesus/Yeshua, nyne hundreth and three and seventye:)
Wyclpreestis, the sones of Idaie, in the hows of Jesue, nyne hundrid and thre and seuenti; (priests, the sons of Idaie, in the house of Yesue, nyne hundred and three and seventy;)
Luthder Priester: der Kinder Jedaja vom Hause Jesua neunhundert und dreiundsiebenzig; (der priest(s): the/of_the children Yedaja from_the house Yesua neunhundert and threeundsiebenzig;)
ClVgSacerdotes: filii Jadaia in domo Josue, nongenti septuaginta tres. (Sacerdotes: children Yadaia in at_home Yosue, nongenti septuaginta 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 priests were men chosen to offer sacrifices to God on behalf of God’s people, and to perform other duties and functions to represent God to the people and to represent the people to God. Alternate translation: “This is how many men returned from each family of priests”
Here, house describes all the people descended from a particular person. The book is describing all of the descendants of Jeshua as if they were one household living together. Alternate translation: “who were descendants of Jeshua”
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.
