Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.
Ver. 14. And with them seventy males] The whole company consisted of one thousand four hundred ninety and six males: a good addition to those that went up before with Zerubbabel; yet nothing so many as might have been, but that they wanted hearts.
Rari quippe boni, numero vix sunt totidem, quot
Thebarum portae, vel divitis ostia Nili (Juvenal, Sat. 13).