Ezra 2:65 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

For women as well as men were devoted to and employed in this exercise in the temple service, as appears from 1 Chronicles 25:5,6. And the parents of these persons had taken care to instruct and exercise them as far as they could in this art, both for God's service, and for their own benefit, when Jerusalem and the temple should be rebuilt; which they knew would be done after Jeremiah's seventy years were expired.

Ezra 2:65

65 Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.