36From the Levites, some divisions in Judah belonged to Benjamin.

NASB ©1995

American Standard Version
And of the Levites, certain courses in Judah were joined to Benjamin.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And of the Levites were portions of Juda and Benjamin.

Darby Bible Translation
And of the Levites there were divisions of Judah dwelling in Benjamin.

English Revised Version
And of the Levites, certain courses in Judah were joined to Benjamin.

Webster's Bible Translation
And of the Levites were divisions in Judah, and in Benjamin.

World English Bible
Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah [were joined] to Benjamin.

Young's Literal Translation
And of the Levites, the courses of Judah are for Benjamin.Lydda
"Lydda was a village, not yielding to a city in greatness." Concerning its situation, and distance from Jerusalem, the Misna hath these words: "The vineyard of four years" (that is, the fruit of a vineyard now of four years' growth; for, for the first three years, they were trees, as it were, not circumcised) "was brought to Jerusalem, in the space of a day's journey on every side. Now these were the bounds of it; Elath on the south; Acrabatta on the north; Lydda on the west; and Jordan on the east." …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica

And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, too little to be among the thousands of Judah
"And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, too little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall come forth unto Me (one) [Pg 480] to be Ruler in Israel; and His goings forth are the times of old, the days of eternity." The close connection of this verse with what immediately precedes (Caspari is wrong in considering iv. 9-14 as an episode) is evident, not only from the [Hebrew: v] copulative, and from the analogy of the near relation of the announcement of salvation to the prophecy of disaster …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament

Ezra-Nehemiah
Some of the most complicated problems in Hebrew history as well as in the literary criticism of the Old Testament gather about the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Apart from these books, all that we know of the origin and early history of Judaism is inferential. They are our only historical sources for that period; and if in them we have, as we seem to have, authentic memoirs, fragmentary though they be, written by the two men who, more than any other, gave permanent shape and direction to Judaism, then …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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