Ezra 2:69 Explained in Context

Verse 64. ⁶⁴ The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

Verse 65. ⁶⁵ Beside 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.

Verse 66. ⁶⁶ Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;

Verse 67. ⁶⁷ Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

Verse 68. ⁶⁸ And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:

Verse 69. ⁶⁹ They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.

Verse 70. ⁷⁰ So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.