The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
The children. This word, as used throughout this catalogue, means posterity or descendants.
Of Parosh, х Par`osh (H6551); Septuagint, Vatican, Fares; Alexandrine, Fores]. Besides the 2,172 exiles belonging to this chief house, who returned to Palestine with the first caravan under Zerubbabel (Sheshbazzar), a second detachment of 130 males came with Ezra (Ezra 8:3) (see as to their labour on the public work, Nehemiah 3:25; Nehemiah 10:14; and the unlawful marriages of some of them, Ezra 10:25).