KJV ORIGINAL
The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
The people from the towns of Lod, Hadid, and Ono: 725 people.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse records that 725 people from three specific towns returned from exile in Babylon to rebuild their homeland.
📚 Historical Context
This verse is part of a detailed census list of Jewish exiles who returned from Babylon to Jerusalem around 538 BC, after King Cyrus of Persia allowed them to go back and rebuild their temple and city. Lod, Hadid, and Ono were small towns in the territory of Benjamin, near Jerusalem, and these families were returning to resettle their ancestral lands after decades of captivity.
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