All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
Parallel translations
- WEB All the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.
- BSB The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.
- NKJV All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon’s servants were three hundred and ninety-two.
- NASB All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants totaled 392.
- NLT In all, the Temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants numbered 392.
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Quick answer
All the temple servants and Solomon's servants together numbered 392. The supporting workers are summed up.
Overview
This total combines the Nethinim and the descendants of Solomon's servants into a single count. The summary underscores the significant body of helpers committed to temple service. Their willing labor reminds us that God's work depends on faithful service at every level.
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Chr 9:2Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.
- 1 Kgs 9:21Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
- Josh 9:27And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
- Josh 9:21And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
- Josh 9:23Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
- Neh 7:60All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
- Neh 3:26Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.
- Ezra 7:7And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
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