◄ Ezra 2:4 ►
Parallel Verses
New Living Translation
The family of Shephatiah 372

King James Bible
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.

Darby Bible Translation
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.

World English Bible
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.

Young's Literal Translation
Sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.

Ezra 2:4 Parallel
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Ezra 2:4 Parallel Commentaries
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The Return of the Exiles
The advent of the army of Cyrus before the walls of Babylon was to the Jews a sign that their deliverance from captivity was drawing nigh. More than a century before the birth of Cyrus, Inspiration had mentioned him by name, and had caused a record to be made of the actual work he should do in taking the city of Babylon unawares, and in preparing the way for the release of the children of the captivity. Through Isaiah the word had been spoken: "Thus saith the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose …
Ellen Gould White—The Story of Prophets and Kings

Ezra-Nehemiah
Some of the most complicated problems in Hebrew history as well as in the literary criticism of the Old Testament gather about the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Apart from these books, all that we know of the origin and early history of Judaism is inferential. They are our only historical sources for that period; and if in them we have, as we seem to have, authentic memoirs, fragmentary though they be, written by the two men who, more than any other, gave permanent shape and direction to Judaism, then …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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