Teks -- Ezra 2:65 (NET)

2:65 not counting their male and female female servants, who numbered 7,337. They also had 200 male and female singers

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Ezr 2:65 - Women

For women as well as men were employed in this exercise in the temple - service.

TSK: Ezr 2:65 - servants // two hundred

servants : Isa 14:1, Isa 14:2

two hundred : Exo 15:20, Exo 15:21; 2Sa 19:35; Neh 7:67; Psa 68:25, Psa 148:12, Psa 148:13; Ecc 2:8; Jer 9:17, Jer 9:18; Mat 9:23

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Ezr 2:65

For women as well as men were devoted to and employed in this exercise in the temple service, as appears from 1Ch 25:5,6 . And the parents of these persons had taken care to instruct and exercise them as far as they could in this art, both for God’ s service, and for their own benefit, when Jerusalem and the temple should be rebuilt; which they knew would be done after Jeremiah’ s seventy years were expired.

Haydock: Ezr 2:65 - Servants // Hundred

Servants. Probably strangers. (Calmet) ---

Yet the Hebrews might renounce their liberty, Exodus xxi. 6. (Haydock) ---

Hundred, comprised in the last number; (Calmet) or they belong to Israel, but were different from those mentioned [in] ver. 41. We find 45 more in 2 and 3 Esdras. (Haydock) ---

These might be inserted by Nehemias, after they had proved themselves to be of the tribe of Levi. (Tournemine) ---

There were in all 49,942. (Haydock) So much was the power of this kingdom now reduced! Sulp Severus says above 50,000 of every sex and rank could not be found. (Haydock)

Gill: Ezr 2:65 - Besides their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven // and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women

Besides their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven,.... This shows that the greater part of those that returned were of the poorer sort, since there were so few servants that belonged unto them; these came not into the above account:

and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women; among the servants, who were kept by persons of figure for their pleasure and recreation, see Ecc 2:8, for that these were such as were employed in sacred service is not so clear, especially the latter, though some conclude it from 1Ch 25:5, but rather they were such as were employed at marriages, festivals, and funerals; though Jarchi thinks they were employed by the returning captives, to make them cheerful as they travelled along; see Gill on Isa 55:12.