The interpretation timeline

Neh 7:8

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Neh 7:8 · Douay-Rheims
“The children of Pharos, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1832
A.D.
Adam Clarke Methodist
1762–1832
“The children of Parosh - As this chapter is almost entirely the same with the second chapter of the book of Ezra, it is not necessary to add any thing to what is said there; and to that chapter, and the accompanying notes, the reader is requested to refer.”
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.