The children of Gibbar Or, as it is in Nehemiah 7:25, of Gibeon, these being the citizens of that city. For this is not the name of a man, but of a place; and the same may be said of several names that follow. The children of Beth-lehem The remainders of the inhabitants of that city: so little was Beth-lehem among the thousands of Judah! Yet thence must the Messiah arise. Netophah and Anathoth also, in the next two verses, were towns, not men.
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Ezra 2:20-21
20 The children of Gibbar,d ninety and five.
21 The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three.