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John Gill's Exposition on Ezra 8:20

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, etc.] To wait upon them, and minister to them, as they did to the priests; some think those were the same with the Gibeonites, whom Joshua gave to the service of the sanctuary, and David confirmed; but others are of opinion these were different from them, and an addition to them: two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name; in the history that Iddo sent of them to Ezra; and so the names of the Levites, though not here expressed, only the names of those they came with.
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