Ezra 8:20 They also brought 220 of the temple servants--a body that David and the officials had established to assist the Levites. All were registered by name.

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New International Version
They also brought 220 of the temple servants--a body that David and the officials had established to assist the Levites. All were registered by name.

English Standard Version
besides 220 of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all mentioned by name.

New American Standard Bible
and 220 of the temple servants, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, all of them designated by name.

King James Bible
Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There were also 220 of the temple servants, who had been appointed by David and the leaders for the work of the Levites. All were identified by name.

International Standard Version
220 descendants of the Temple Servants whom David and the leaders had appointed to serve the descendants of Levi, listed by name.

American Standard Version
and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were mentioned by name.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And of the Nathinites, whom David, and the princes gave for the service of the Levites, Nathinites two hundred and twenty: all these were called by their names.

Darby Bible Translation
and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were expressed by name.

Young's Literal Translation
and from the Nethinim, whom David and the heads gave for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim, all of them defined by name.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 9:2
Now the first inhabitants that dwelled in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.

Ezra 2:43
The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

Ezra 7:7
And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

Ezra 8:19
And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

8:1-20 Ezra assembles the outcasts of Israel, and the dispersed of Judah. God raised up the spirits of a small remnant to accompany him. What a pity that good men should omit a good work, for want of being spoken to!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

16-20. then sent I for Eliezer … with commandment unto Iddo the chief—Ezra sent this deputation, either by virtue of authority which by his priestly character he had over the Levites, or of the royal commission with which he was invested. The deputation was despatched to Iddo, who was a prince or chief of the Nethinims—for the Persian government allowed the Hebrews during their exile to retain their ecclesiastical government by their own chiefs, as well as to enjoy the privilege of free worship. Iddo's influence procured and brought to the camp at Ahava thirty-eight Levites, and two hundred twenty Nethinims, the descendants of the Gibeonites, who performed the servile duties of the temple.