58 All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants, three hundred and ninety-two.
their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, upon them did Solomon impose a tribute of bondservice until this day.
And the inhabitants that were first in their possessions in their cities were the Israelites, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
And now ye are cursed, and ye shall never cease to be bondmen, and hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the house of my God.
And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the assembly, and for the altar of Jehovah, to this day, in the place which he should choose.
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Commentary on Ezra 2 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 2
That many returned out of Babylon upon Cyrus's proclamation we were told in the foregoing chapter; we have here a catalogue of the several families that returned (v. 1).
Ezr 2:1-35
We may observe here,
Ezr 2:36-63
Here is an account,
Ezr 2:64-70
Here is,