Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Ezra 2:40
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah (or Hodevah, or Judah), seventy and four.
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah (or Hodevah, or Judah), seventy and four.
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....
_the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah_ The occurrence of these names in Nehemiah 10:9 shows that, as throughout this list, we have here the titles of families, not necessari...
The Levites are here arranged in the same way as in the 1st Book of Chronicles, i.e. into (1) Levites proper (cf. 1 Chronicles 24:20-31). (2) Singers (cf. 1 Chronicles 25). (3) Doorkeepers (cf. 1 Chr
4. Also important enough to be mentioned were certain people connected with the Temple and religious worship. TEXT, EZRA 2:36-58 36 The priests: the sons of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua, 973; 37...
_THE LEVITES: THE CHILDREN OF JESHUA AND KADMIEL, OF THE CHILDREN OF HODAVIAH, SEVENTY AND FOUR._ The children of Jeshua and Kadmiel. Jeshua had assigned him the presidency of the 9th course (1 Chron...
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...
SEVENTY AND FOUR] The small number betrays a backwardness on the part of the Levites similar to that which they manifested on a subsequent occasion: see Ezra 8:15....
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...
THE LEVITES: THE CHILDREN OF JESHUA. — Then follow the Levitical families, not priests: that is, the Levites proper, the singers, the door-keepers or porters. Of the first there were only two families...
הַ לְוִיִּ֑ם בְּנֵי ־יֵשׁ֧וּעַ וְ קַדְמִיאֵ֛ל...
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...
_Odovia, called Juda, chap. iii. 9. (Calmet)_...
I include the whole of these in one list, for Levites, Nethinims, and the Singers, with the children of Solomon's servants, may be summed up as bearing offices in one and the same household, though in...
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...
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, t...
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...
HODAVIAH: Or, Judah, Ezra 3:9. called also Hodevah...
36-63 Those who undervalue their relation to the Lord in times of reproach, persecution, or distress, will have no benefit from it when it becomes honourable or profitable. Those who have no evidence...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Ezra 2:40 Levites H3881 sons H1121 Jeshua H3442 Kadmiel H6934 sons H1121 Hodaviah H1938 seventy-four H7657 H702 Hodav
ENROLLING OF THE LEVITES (EZRA 2:40). Compared with 4,289 priests who returned, only 74 Levites returned, to which we might add the 128 singers and the 139 gatekeepers, making 341 in all (although it...
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...
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....
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 2:36 Temple officials are divided by function, headed by the PRIESTS and LEVITES. The priests (vv. Ezra 2:36) are most impor
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 3:9; Nehemiah 7:43...