The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.
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The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.
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The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
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The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
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Passages linked to Ezra 2:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Nehemiah 7:25 The children of Gibeon: ninety-five.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Ezr 2:20-21. The children of Gibbar — Or, as…
Ezr 2:20-21. The children of Gibbar — Or, as it is in Neh 7:25, of Gibeon, these being the citizens of that city. For this is not the name of a man, but of a place; and the same may be said of several names that follow. The children of Beth-lehem — The remainders of the inhabitants of that city: so little was Beth-lehem among the thousands of Judah! Yet thence must the Messiah arise. Netophah and Anathoth also, in the next two verses, were towns, not men.
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Gebbar. 2 Esdras, Gabaon. 3 Esdras, "Baitereus, 3005." (Haydock)
Gebbar. 2 Esdras, Gabaon. 3 Esdras, "Baitereus, 3005." (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. Gibbar] Neh_7:25 ‘Gibeon’ (for which our text is…
20. Gibbar] Neh_7:25 ‘Gibeon’ (for which our text is probably an early error), the famous scene of Joshua’s victory (Joshua , 10), of the battle between David’s and Ishbosheth’s men (2 Samuel 2), of Joab’s murder of Amasa (2Sa_20:8), the abode of the tabernacle (1Ki_3:4; 1Ch_16:39; 1Ch_21:29; 2Ch_1:3), the high-place at which the Lord appeared unto Solomon in a dream (1Ki_3:4).
The false prophet Hananiah (Jer_28:1) came from Gibeon. The modern ‘El-Jib,’ distant about 5 miles N.W. from Jerusalem, in the territory of Benjamin.
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20–35. Names of towns and places. It is possible that the register dealt first with the dwellers in Jerusalem. The inhabitants of the towns and places nearest to Jerusalem and best known are mentioned next: last of all, the inhabitants of the less known or more remote places. The numbers are much smaller than those of the households (3–19).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The children of Gibbar. For "Gibbar" we should probably…
The children of Gibbar. For "Gibbar" we should probably read "Gibeon," which occurs in the corresponding passage of Nehemiah (vii. 25). The writer at this point passes from persons to places, making thelatter portion of his list topographical. Gibeon was a well-known town in Benjamin. (Jos_18:25) Other Benjamite towns in the list are Anathoth, Ramah, Gabs, Michmas, Bethel, and Jericho. It would seem that the descendants of the captives carried off from these places retained a traditional knowledge of the locality to which they belonged.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.