Ezra 2:55 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The children of Solomon's servants; either of those strangers and proselytes whom Solomon used in the building of the temple, 1 Kings 9:21, to the service of which, as some add, he devoted them, as there should be occasion hereafter; or others who had lived in Solomon's family, and after his death called themselves and their families by that name, as esteeming it, a great honour to them that they had been servants to so great a prince.

Ezra 2:55

55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,l