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The sum total is given without any variation by Ezra, by Nehemiah (see
the marginal reference), and by Esdras (1 Esdras 5:41), who adds, that
in this reckoning only those of twelve years of age and up...
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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
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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....
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CONGREGATION. assembly, or muster.
FORTY AND TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND THREESCORE. This number
(42,360) agrees with Nehemiah 7:66. The two lists of _names_ are not
alike; but there is no "discre...
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The same total i.e. 42,360 is given in Ezra, Nehemiah and 1 Esdras.
The items however fail in all three lists to produce this figure.
_Ezra_
_Neh._
1 _Esdr._
Men of the people of Israel
24,144
2...
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_VER._ 64. _THE WHOLE CONGREGATION—WAS FORTY-AND-TWO THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED AND THREESCORE_— Dr. Lightfoot observes on this passage,
"Here is a _summa totalis_ [_a sum total_] of forty-two thousand th...
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6. Ezra 2:64-65 give the totals of the returnees.
TEXT, EZRA 2:64-65
64
The whole assembly numbered 42,360,
65
besides their male and female servants, who numbered 7,337; and they
had 200 singing...
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_THE WHOLE CONGREGATION TOGETHER WAS FORTY AND TWO THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED AND THREESCORE,_
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three
hundred and threescore. This gross amount I...
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FORTY AND TWO THOUSAND, etc.] The total number here given disagrees
with the sum of the items, which only amounts to 29,818 (in Nehemiah
7:66; Nehemiah 7:31, 089, the difference perhaps being due to t...
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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...
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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...
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This sum total is the same in Nehemiah; but the several sums in Ezra
make 29,818, and in Nehemiah 31,089. The apocryphal Esdras agrees in
the total, but makes in the particulars 33,950, adding that ch...
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כָּל ־הַ קָּהָ֖ל כְּ אֶחָ֑ד אַרְבַּ֣ע
רִבֹּ֔ו
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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...
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THE BUILDING OF THE ALTAR
Ezra 2:61; Ezra 3:1
Throughout their history the true Israelites were eager to maintain
their genealogy; wherever they were scattered, they carefully guarded
their national...
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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...
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Forty-two thousand, &c. Those who are reckoned up above of the tribes
of Juda, Benjamin, and Levi, fall short of this number. The rest, who
must be taken in to make up the whole sum, were of the other...
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If the Reader will compare accounts in this of the return with that of
their carrying away, he will find that they had multiplied as they had
done in Egypt under all their affliction. Precious thought...
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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...
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THE WHOLE CONGREGATION TOGETHER WAS FORTY AND TWO THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED [AND] THREESCORE. But the sums before given make no more, with
Zerubbabel, and the ten principal men, than 29,829, so that ther...
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The whole congregation together [was] forty and two thousand three
hundred [and] threescore,
Ver. 64. _Forty and two thousand_] Ten or twelve thousand whereof seem
to be of the ten tribes that were f...
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_Forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore_ This is more
than double the number which were carried away captive by
Nebuchadnezzar. But here occurs a small difficulty; (like that in the
end o...
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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...
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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...
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64-70 Let none complain of the needful expenses of their religion.
Seek first the kingdom of God, his favour and his glory, then will all
other things be added unto them. Their offerings were nothing...
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The particular sums here recited come only 29,818; unto whom are added
in this total sum, 12,542; which either were of the other tribes
beside Judah and Benjamin, or were such as were supposed by them...
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Ezra 2:64 assembly H6951 together H259 forty-two H702 H7239 thousand
H505 three H7969 hundred H3967 sixty H8346...
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THE ENROLLING OF THE PRIESTS WHO COULD NOT PROVE THEIR ANCESTRY (EZRA
2:63).
Far more important was the situation of the priests who could not
demonstrate their ancestry, for this excluded them from p...
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THE SUM TOTAL OF THE ARRIVEES (EZRA 2:64).
Ezra 2:64
‘The whole assembly together was forty two thousand, three hundred
and sixty,'
The sum total of the arrivees who represented Israel comes to 42,3...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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....
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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...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM CAPTIVITY WITH ZERUBBABEL, AND
THE NAMES OF THE CHIEFS (Ezra 2:1). It has
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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...
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Ezra 9:8; Isaiah 10:20; Jeremiah 23:3; Nehemiah 7:66...
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The whole, &c. — The particular sums here recited, come only to
twenty and nine thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Unto whom are
added in this total sum twelve thousand five hundred and forty two.
W...