And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonished. 9:3
Trivia: Why did Ezra pull out the hairs on his head and beard?
And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonished. 9:3
Trivia: Why did Ezra pull out the hairs on his head and beard?
In verse 11, the total number of items listed in the previous two verses is said to be 5400. The actual total is 2499. 1:9-11
God's magical Urim and Thummim 2:63
"The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand tree hundred and threescore [42,360]." Yet if we count up all of the numbers in the list just given in Ezra 2:3-62 we obtain a different number: 29,818. 2:65
When Ezra hears of the intermarriages, he tears up his clothes, plucks out his hair and beard, and sits down astonished. 9:3
