Esdras 3:9

Ezr 3:9 Then stood Jeshua [with] his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, [with] their sons and their brethren the Levites.

Ver. 9. Then stood Jeshua ] Not the high priest, but another, a Levite.

The sons of Henadad, with their sons ] A generation of godly and active men in the things of God, see Nehemiah 3:18 ; Nehemiah 3:24 ; Nehemiah 10:9 . Grace is not hereditary, the white halcyons hatch black young ones, Heroum filii noxae. Nevertheless, nurture helpeth nature; and good men strive to mend that by education which they have marred by propagation. They cocker not, but correct their children; they pray for them, and drop good principles into them; they smooth them as arrows, Psalms 128:3-4 , getting off the knottiness of their nature; and leave not till they see them the work of God’s hands, so as to sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and to fear the God of Israel, Isaiah 29:23 . These sons of Henadad, as they attended upon the temple work, so themselves were as the polished corners of the temple, Psalms 144:12 .