Why are the numbers in Ezra so different from Nehemiah?
Nehemiah 2:1 - 20
ESV - 1 In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence. 2 And the king said to me, "Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart." Then I was very much afraid.
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Asked December 30 2015
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S. Michael Houdmann
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Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7 offer nearly identical lists of the people who returned to Jerusalem from Persia with Zerubbabel to rebuild the temple. Adding up the numbers listed in Ezra gives a sum of 29,...
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