* forty.
   Though the sum total, both here and in Nehemiah, is equal,
   namely, 42,360, yet the particulars reckoned up only make
   29,818; in Ezra, and 31,089; in Nehemiah; and we find that
   Nehemiah mentions 1,765; persons who are not in Ezra, and Ezra
   has 494; not mentioned in Nehemiah.  This last circumstance,
   which seems to render all hope of reconciling them impossible,
   Mr. Alting thinks is the very point by which they can be
   reconciled; for, if we add Ezra's surplus to the sum in
   Nehemiah, and Nehemiah's surplus to the number in Ezra, they
   will both amount to 31,583; which subtracted from 42,360,
   leaves a deficiency of 10,777, which are not named because
   they did not belong to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, or to
   the priests, but to the other Israelitish tribes.

  9:8  Ne 7:66-69  Isa 10:20-22  Jer 23:3