The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.

EZRA 2:3KJV
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Ezra 2:3 (KJV)

What does Ezra 2:3 mean?

Ezra 2:3 lists the descendants of Parosh, numbering 2,172 people, as part of a census of families returning from Babylonian exile to Jerusalem. This verse is one entry in a detailed record of those who came back to rebuild their homeland after captivity.

Ezra, a Jewish leader and scribe, is recording the names and numbers of family groups who returned from exile under the decree of the Persian king. The mention of "the children of Parosh" refers to a specific extended family or clan. This census helps establish the continuity of the Jewish community and shows the organized effort to restore life in Jerusalem after years away.

Where else these words appear

“Parosh” Hebrew H6551 · used in 6 verses

  • Ezra 8:3 Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.
  • Ezra 10:25 Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
  • Nehemiah 7:8 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.

“seventy” Hebrew H7657 · used in 90 verses

  • Genesis 4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
  • Numbers 7:73 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
  • 1 Chronicles 21:14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.