Ezra - 2:21



21 The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.

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Explanation and meaning of Ezra 2:21.

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The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred twenty and three.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The children of Beth-lehem - The inhabitants: see before.

(f) The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three.
(f) That is inhabitants, for so this word
(some) signifies when it is joined with the names of places.

Beth - lehem - And so these were the remainders of the inhabitants of that city. (And the like may be said of the two following names, Netophah and Anathoth, or others of the like nature.) So little was Beth - lehem among the thousands of Judah! Yet thence must the Messiah arise.

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