All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants totaled 392.
Parallel translations
- WEB All the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.
- KJV All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and 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.
- NLT In all, the Temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants numbered 392.
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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 who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.
- 1 Kgs 9:21their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.
- Josh 9:27That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for Yahweh’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose.
- Josh 9:21The princes said to them, “Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.”
- Josh 9:23Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
- Neh 7:60All the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.
- Neh 3:26(Now the temple servants lived in Ophel, to the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)
- Ezra 7:7Some of the children of Israel, including some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the porters, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
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