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Nehemiah 7:44

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The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 148.

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Matthew Henry Bible Commentaryv. 44

The success of one good design for God and our generation should encourage us to proceed and form some other; Nehemiah did so, having fortified Jerusalem with gates and walls, his next care is, I. To see the city well kept (Neh 7:1-4). II. To see it well peopled, in order to which he here reviews and calls over the register of the children of the captivity, the families that returned at first, and records it (v. 5-73). It is the same, in effect, with that which we had, Ezra 2. What use he made of it we shall find afterwards, when he brought one of ten to live in Jerusalem, Neh 11:1.

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Strong's Concordancev. 44

שִׁיר (shîyr, H7891) — to sing בֵּן (bên, H1121) — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative… אָסָף (ʼÂçâph, H623) — Asaph, the name of three Israelites, and of the family of the first מֵאָה (mêʼâh, H3967) — a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction אַרְבָּעִים (ʼarbâʻîym, H705) — forty שְׁמֹנֶה (shᵉmôneh, H8083) — a cardinal number, eight (as if a surplus above the 'perfect' seven); also (as ordinal)…

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Ezra 2:41rank 2

The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 128.

I Chronicles 25:2rank 2

From the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asarelah. These sons of Asaph were under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the direction of the king.

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