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Ezra 2:63 KJV
Ezra · chapter 2 · verse 63
And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.Ezra 2:63 · King James Version
Ezra 2:63 in context
61And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:
62These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
63And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
64The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
65Beside 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- TirshathaTirshâthâʼTirshatha, the title of a Persian deputy or governorH8660 →
- priestkôhênliterally one officiating, a priestH3548 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- UrimʼÛwrîymUrim, the oracular brilliancy of the figures in the high-priest's breastplateH224 →
- eatʼâkalto eatH398 →
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Here is an account, I. Of the priests that returned, and they were a considerable number, about a tenth part of the whole company: for the whole were above 42,000 (Ezr 2:64), and four families of priests made up above 4200 (Ezr 2:36-39); thus was the tenth God's part - a blessed decimation.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 36-63