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7:57 The descendants <01121> of the servants <05650> of Solomon <08010>: the descendants <01121> of Sotai <05479>, the descendants <01121> of Sophereth <05618>, the descendants <01121> of Perida <06514>, 7:58 the descendants <01121> of Jaala <03279>, the descendants <01121> of Darkon <01874>, the descendants <01121> of Giddel <01435>, 7:59 the descendants <01121> of Shephatiah <08203>, the descendants <01121> of Hattil <02411>, the descendants <01121> of Pokereth-Hazzebaim <06380>, and the descendants <01121> of Amon <0526>. 7:60 All <03605> the temple servants <05411> and the descendants <01121> of the servants <05650> of Solomon <08010>, 392 <08673> <03967> <07969>. 7:61 These <0428> are the ones who came up <05927> from Tel Melah <08528>, Tel Harsha <08521>, Kerub <03743>, Addon <0114>, and Immer <0564> (although they were unable <03201> <03808> to certify <05046> their family <01004> connection <01> or <0518> their ancestry <02233>, as to whether <0518> they <01992> were really from Israel <03478>): 7:62 the descendants <01121> of Delaiah <01806>, the descendants <01121> of Tobiah <02900>, and the descendants <01121> of Nekoda <05353>, 642 <08147> <0705> <03967> <08337>. 7:63 And from <04480> among the priests <03548>: the descendants <01121> of Hobaiah <02252>, the descendants <01121> of Hakkoz <06976>, and the descendants <01121> of Barzillai <01271> (who <0834> had married <03947> a woman <0802> from the daughters <01323> of Barzillai <01271> the Gileadite <01569> and was called <07121> by <05921> that name <08034>). 7:64 They <0428> searched <01245> for their records <03791> in the genealogical materials <03187>, but none <03808> were found <04672>. They were therefore excluded <01351> from <04480> the priesthood <03550>. 7:65 The governor <08660> instructed <0559> them not <03808> to eat <0398> any of the sacred <06944> food until <05704> there was a priest <03548> who could consult <05975> the Urim <0224> and Thummim <08550>. 7:66 The entire <03605> group <06951> numbered 42,360 <08346> <03967> <07969> <0505> <07239> <0702>, 7:67 not counting <0905> their <0428> 7,337 <07651> <07970> <03967> <07969> <0505> <07651> male <05650> and female <0519> servants <05650>. They also had 245 <02568> <0705> <03967> male <07891> and female <07891> singers <07891> <07891>. 7:68 They had 736 horses, 245 mules, 7:69 435 <02568> <07970> <03967> <0702> camels <01581>, and 6,720 <06242> <03967> <07651> <0505> <08337> donkeys <02543>. 7:70 Some <07117> of the family <01> leaders <07218> contributed <05414> to the work <04399>. The governor <08660> contributed <05414> to the treasury <0214> 1,000 <0505> gold <02091> drachmas <01871>, 50 <02572> bowls <04219>, and 530 <03967> <02568> <07970> priestly <03548> garments <03801>. 7:71 Some of the family <01> leaders <07218> gave <05414> to the project <04399> treasury <0214> 20,000 <07239> gold <02091> drachmas <01871> and 2,200 <03967> <0505> <08147> silver <03701> minas <04488>. 7:72 What <0834> the rest <07611> of the people <05971> gave <05414> amounted to 20,000 <07239> <08147> gold <02091> drachmas <01871>, 2,000 <0505> silver <03701> minas <04488>, and 67 <07651> <08346> priestly <03548> garments <03801>. 7:73 The priests <03548>, the Levites <03881>, the gatekeepers <07778>, the singers <07891>, some of <04480> the people <05971>, the temple servants <05411>, and all <03605> the rest of Israel <03478> lived <03427> in their cities <05892>. When the seventh <07637> month <02320> arrived <05060> and the Israelites <03478> <01121> were settled in their cities <05892>,

• Neh 7:73--8:18 -- The People Respond to the Reading of the Law

• Temple

  [nave] TEMPLE. Solomon's Called also Temple of the Lord, 2 Kin. 11:10; Holy Temple, Psa. 79:1; Holy House, 1 Chr. 29:3; House of God, 1 Chr. 29:2; 2 Chr. 23:9; House of the Lord, 2 Chr. 23:5, 12; Jer. 28:5; Father's House, John 2...
  

• Tel-haresha

  [ebd] hill of the wood, a place in Babylon from which some captive Jews returned to Jerusalem (Ezra 2:59; Neh. 7:61).
  

• SOLOMONS SERVANTS

  [smith] (CHILDREN OF). (Ezra 2:55,58; Nehemiah 7:57,60) The persons thus named appear in the lists of the exiles who returned from the captivity. They were the descendants of the Canaanites who were reduced by Solomon to the helot st...
  

• SOLOMON'S SERVANTS

  [isbe] SOLOMON'S SERVANTS - ('adbhedhe shelomoh; douloi Salomon): "The children of Solomon's servants" constituted a company or guild of the Jewish exiles who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylonia to Jerusalem in 537 BC, pursuant...
  

• SOLOMON

  [isbe] SOLOMON - sol'-o-mun (shelomoh; New Testament Solomon): I. EARLY LIFE 1. Name and Meaning 2. Sources 3. Birth and Upbringing 4. His Accession 5. Closing Days of David II. REIGN OF SOLOMON 1. His Vision 2. His Policy 3. Its R...
  

• Priest

  [nave] PRIEST. Before Moses Melchizedek, Gen. 14:18; Heb. 5:6, 10, 11; 6:20; 7:1-21. Jethro, Ex. 2:16. Priests in Israel before the giving of the law, Ex. 19:22, 24. Called angel, Eccl. 5:6. Mosaic Ex. 28:1-4; 29:9, 44; Num....
  

• Nehemiah

  [nave] NEHEMIAH 1. Son of Hachaliah, Neh. 1:1. Cupbearer of Artaxerxes, Neh. 1:11; 2:1. Is grieved over the desolation of his country, Neh. 1. Is sent by the king to rebuild Jerusalem, Neh. 2:1-8. Register of the people whom he...
  

• Minister

  [ebd] one who serves, as distinguished from the master. (1.) Heb. meshereth, applied to an attendant on one of superior rank, as to Joshua, the servant of Moses (Ex. 33:11), and to the servant of Elisha (2 Kings 4:43). This name i...
  

• MONEY

  [ebd] Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again in connection with Jacob'...
  [smith] Uncointed money. --It is well known that ancient nations that were without a coinage weighed the precious metals, a practice represented on the Egyptian monuments, on which gold and silver are shown to have been kept in the ...
  

• Liberality

  [nave] LIBERALITY. Ex. 22:29, 30 Ex. 13:2, 12. Ex. 23:15 Ex. 34:20. Ex. 25:1-8; Ex. 35:4-29; Ex. 36:3-6; Ex. 38:8; Lev. 19:5 Lev. 22:29; Num. 35:8. Deut. 12:11, 12, 17-19; Deut. 14:27-29; Deut. 15:7-18; Deut. 16:10, 17; Deut. 18:1...
  

• Levites

  [nave] LEVITES The descendants of Levi. Set apart as ministers of religion, Num. 1:47-54; 3:6-16; 16:9; 26:57-62; Deut. 10:8; 1 Chr. 15:2. Substituted in the place of the firstborn, Num. 3:12, 41-45; 8:14, 16-18; 18:6. Religious ...
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• Genealogy

  [nave] GENEALOGY, Num. 1:18; 2 Chr. 12:15; Ezra 2:59; Neh. 7:5; Heb. 7:3. Of no spiritual significance, Matt. 3:9; 1 Tim. 1:4; Tit. 3:9. From Adam to Noah, Gen. 4:16-22; 5; 1 Chr. 1:1-4; Luke 3:36-38; to Abraham, Gen. 11:10-32; ...
  

• GENEALOGY, 8 part 2

  [isbe] GENEALOGY, 8 part 2 - I. Primeval Genealogies (1 Chronicals 1:1-54). To show Israel's place among the nations; follows Genesis closely, omitting only the Cainites; boldly, skillfully compressed, as if the omitted facts were ...
  

• GENEALOGY, 8 part 1

  [isbe] GENEALOGY, 8 part 1 - 8. Principal Genealogies and Lists: In the early genealogies the particular strata to which each has been assigned by reconstructive critics is here indicated by J, the Priestly Code (P), etc. The signs...
  

• Dram

  [ebd] The Authorized Version understood the word 'adarkonim (1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 8:27), and the similar word darkomnim (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70), as equivalent to the Greek silver coin the drachma. But the Revised Version rightly regar...
  [nave] DRAM Called also Drachm. A Persian coin of differently estimated value, 1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 2:69; 8:27; Neh. 7:70-72.
  

• DARIC

  [ebd] in the Revised Version of 1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 2:69; 8:27; Neh. 7:70-72, where the Authorized Version has "dram." It is the rendering of the Hebrew darkemon and the Greek dareikos. It was a gold coin, bearing the figure of a Pe...
  [isbe] DARIC - dar'-ik (darkemon, and 'adharkon; dareikos): A Persian gold coin about a guinea or five dollars in value. The first form of the word occurs in 1 Ch 29:7; Ezr 2:69, and Neh 7:70-72; the second in Ezr 8:27 and is rende...
  [smith] (from dara , a king), Authorized Version "dram," (1 Chronicles 29:7; Ezra 2:69; 8:27; Nehemiah 7:70,71,72) a gold coin current in Palestine in the period after the return from Babylon. It weighed 128 grains, and was worth ...
  

• Camel

  [ebd] from the Hebrew gamal, "to repay" or "requite," as the camel does the care of its master. There are two distinct species of camels, having, however, the common characteristics of being "ruminants without horns, without muzzl...
  

• COINS

  [isbe] COINS - koinz: There were no coins in use in Palestine until after the Captivity. It is not quite certain whether gold and silver were before that time divided into pieces of a certain weight for use as money or not, but the...
  

• Addon

  [ebd] low, one of the persons named in Neh. 7:61 who could not "shew their father's house" on the return from captivity. This, with similar instances (ver. 63), indicates the importance the Jews attached to their genealogies.
  

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