John Gill Commentary Ezra 2:40

"The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four." — Ezra 2:40 (ASV)

Ver. 40-42. The Levites

Singers and porters, who are reckoned in this, and the two following verses, whose numbers were no more than three hundred and forty one; whereas, in the times of David, they were 38,000, (1 Chronicles 23:3) .