which came with Zerubbabel, who had been appointed governor of the returned exiles in Judah: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rebum, Baanah. All told, Cf Nehemiah 7, there were twelve priestly heads, who represented, in a way, the twelve tribes of Israel. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
Verse Ezra 2:2. _WHICH CAME WITH ZERUBBABEL_] There are many difficulties in this table of names; but as we have no less than _three_ copies of it, _that_ contained here from Ezra 2:1, a _second_ in...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The leaders (Ezra 2:1)_ 2. The names of the returning exiles (Ezra 2:3) 3. The priests (Ezra 2:36) 4. The Levites and singers (Ez
A LIST OF THE EXILES WHO RETURNED UNDER ZERUBBABEL. See the Greek Ezra (1 Esdras) Esther 5:7 and Nehemiah 7:6_ a_, where this list also occurs, though with some variations. Ezra 2:1 a. province: Heb....
CAME WITH ZERUBBABEL. But not till _after_ Nehemiah 1:1 Nehemiah 7:4. See note on Nehemiah 1:2; Nehemiah 1:3. In...
_which came with Zerubbabel:_ Better punctuate as R.V. - _with Zerubbabel_,". Those referred to are the main subject of Ezra 2:1, -the children of the province, &c.", and are here described as coming...
2. The list really begins with laymen, simply men of the people of Israel. TEXT, EZRA 2:2Ezra 2:2 2b The number of the men of the people of Israel: 3 the sons of Parosh, 2,172; 4 the sons of Sh...
TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT B. This is a list of the leaders and groups among the returnees 1. The introduction of the list gives the names of their leaders. TEXT, EZRA 2:1-2 a 1 Now these are...
_WHICH CAME WITH ZERUBBABEL: JESHUA, NEHEMIAH, SERAIAH, REELAIAH, MORDECAI, BILSHAN, MISPAR, BIGVAI, REHUM, BAANAH. THE NUMBER OF THE MEN OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL:_ Which came with Zerubbabel. He was...
2:2 Zerubbabel, (f-4) Sheshbazzar; ch. 1.8; see 1 Chronicles 3:19 ....
THE NAMES AND NUMBER OF THOSE WHO RETURNED 1. The province] i.e. the Persian province of Judæa (Ezra 5:8). HAD CARRIED AWAY] in 597 b.c. and 586 b.c. EVERY ONE UNTO HIS CITY] i.e. to the provincial t...
ZERUBBABEL] for his relation to Sheshbazzar see on Ezra 1:8 for his ancestry see on Ezra 3:2. The list of names that follows is repeated, with some variants, in Nehemiah 7:7. JESHUA] the high priest,...
THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM EZRA _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 2 In the Book of Ezra, there are many names. Some of these people were leaders. However, Ezra also refers to many people who were not wel...
WHICH CAME WITH ZERUBBABEL: JESHUA. — The leaders of the people, perhaps the twelve tribes, are represented by twelve names, one of which, Nahamani, is here wanting; three others are given in slightly...
אֲשֶׁר ־בָּ֣אוּ עִם ־זְרֻבָּבֶ֗ל יֵשׁ֡וּעַ נְ֠חֶמְיָה...
THE SECOND EXODUS Ezra 2:1 THE journey of the returning exiles from Babylon has some points of resemblance to the exodus of their fathers from Egypt. On both occasions the Israelites had been sufferi...
Chapter two contains the register of those who, taking advantage f Cyrus's decree, turned their faces toward Jerusalem. The list proceeds in a definite order, from the leaders downward. First, the nam...
Which came with (b) Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, (c) Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number (d) of the men of the people of Israel: (b) Zerubbabel was chief...
Zorobabel was the prince, Josue the high priest. (Calmet) --- There are 12 mentioned in 2 and 3 Esdras. But here the sixth Nahamani, or Enenion, is omitted. (Haydock) --- There represent the 12 tribes...
No doubt during the captivity a faithful register was kept of the several families, and therefore their number was the more clearly ascertained. Chiefly with an eye to the promised Messiah, each fathe...
Nevertheless, God still gives the people-guilty under the law-an opportunity for the exercise of faith. Let us examine the principles that characterise the energy of the Holy Ghost in the people at th...
WHICH CAME WITH ZERUBBABEL,.... The head of them, the prince of Judah; and the chief that came with him are the ten following; Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, R...
Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: _Ver 2. That came with Zerubbabel_] T...
_Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah_, &c. These were their heads, who undertook to conduct them: among whom Zerubbabel was their prince or leader, as Jeshua was high-priest, who is mentioned...
1 The number that returne, of the people, 36 of the Priests, 40 of the Leuites, 43 of the Nethinims, 55 of Solomons seruants, 62 of the Priests which could not shewe their pedigree. 64 The whole...
LIST OF RETURNED CAPTIVES (vv. 1-58) This chapter shows the definite interest God had in every individual who returned from the captivity, so that the number from each city is recorded, and the tota...
SERAIAH: Or, Azariah...
1-35 An account was kept of the families that came up out of captivity. See how sin lowers a nation, which righteousness would exalt!...
As for this catalogue, it differs in some names and numbers from that NE 7, which might be from divers causes, partly because several names were given to one and the same person; and partly because of...
Ezra 2:2 came H935 (H8804) Zerubbabel H2216 Jeshua H3442 Nehemiah H5166 Seraiah H8304 Reelaiah H7480 Mordecai H4782 Bilshan...
A LIST OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM BABYLON TO JERUSALEM IN THE INITIAL STAGES (EZRA 2:1). In this chapter we are provided with a list of those who returned from Babylon, taking advantage of Cyrus' edic...
INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL (EZRA 2:1). The listing reproduced in this chapter is of male Jews ‘in the administrative district/province' who returned from Babylonia. Ezra 1:11 TO EZRA 2:2 ‘All these did S...
ZERUBBABEL Called Zorobabel, (Matthew 1:12); (Matthew 1:13)....
CONTENTS: The returning remnant. CHARACTERS: God, Zerubbabel. CONCLUSION: Sin debases and diminishes a nation but God always has a faithful remnant who love the ceremonies of His house and give libe...
Ezra 2:1. _The children of the province._ Judea under Zedekiah was reduced to a province of the Babylonian empire; or the phrase may import, the children of Israel who resided in the province of Babyl...
_The number of the men of the people of Israel._ A SUGGESTIVE RECORD Consider-- I. The significance of the fact of the record. 1. It Was an honour to the pious and patriotic ones who returned. 2....
_Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity._ GOING UP OUT OF CAPTIVITY I. The deliverance from captivity. 1. This captivity had been-- (1) A degradation; (2) a...
EZRA 2:1 The Exiles Live Again in Their Ancestral Homes. This long chapter tells of the exiles’ return from Babylon to resettle in their former homes in Jerusalem and Judah. (The information in ch. Ez...
EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 2:2 The laity is described partly by kinship (vv. Ezra 2:2) and partly by place (vv. Ezra 2:20), without a real distincti
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] In this chapter we have _the list of those who returned from captivity with Zerubbabel, and their contributions for rebuilding the Temple_. The contents may be arrange...
EXPOSITION THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM CAPTIVITY WITH ZERUBBABEL, AND THE NAMES OF THE CHIEFS (Ezra 2:1). It has
So here they are returning to Jerusalem, as I said, some fifty thousand. And in chapter two it gives you the names of the people and the families that came and the numbers that came with them. Beginni...
Ezra 1:11; Ezra 3:8; Ezra 3:9; Ezra 4:3; Ezra 4:8;...
Who came, &c. — This catalogue, differs in some names and numbers from that Nehemiah 7:6, which might be because several names were given to the same persons; and because of the many changes which mig...