Bible Strands
Ezra 2:34
the men of Jericho, 345;
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records a post-exilic census of returning exiles, listing families by their ancestral towns to establish community boundaries and restoration numbers.
The words — יְרֵח֔וֹ (ye.re.Cho) denotes the city of Jericho, while שְׁלֹ֥שׁ (she.Losh) and אַרְבָּעִ֥ים ('ar.ba.'Im) combine to specify the exact count of three hundred forty men.
The thread — Nehemiah 7:36 repeats this identical census figure for Jericho, and 1 Kings 16:34 previously marked Jericho as a site of cursed rebuilding during Ahab’s reign.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition of how returning exiles reorganized themselves by ancestral geography, using precise numbers to validate their restored communal structure.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
Cross-references
- 1 Kings 16:34 In Ahab’s days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.
- 2 Chronicles 28:15 Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.
- Nehemiah 7:36 the men of Jericho, 345;