Ezra 2:66

“Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;”

My Notes

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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771

So the priests and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities,....…

Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832

Their horses - seven hundred, etc. - They went into captivity, stripped of every thing; they now return from it,…

Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Ezra 2:64-70

Here is, I. The sum total of the company that returned out of Babylon. The particular sums before mentioned amount not…

Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921

horses The number mentioned here (736) appears in 1Es 5:43 as 7036, a fair sample of the way in which figures could…