Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible
Ezra 2:1-35
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!
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!
CHAPTER II _An account of those who returned from Babylon_, 1-35. _The children of the priests who returned_, 36-39. _Of the Levites_, 40. _Of the singers_, 41. _Of the porters_, 42. Of the Neth...
THE PROVINCE - Judaea was no longer a kingdom, but a mere “province” of Persia. “The children of the province” are the Israelites who returned to Palestine, as distinct from those who remained in Baby...
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....
THESE ARE. This chapter is parallel with Nehemiah 7:69. See the Structure, p. 617, and App-58. CHILDREN. sons. THE PROVINCE: i.e. the Persian province of Judah. Compare Nehemiah 1:3. AND JUDAH. Some...
_Now these_are _the children of the province_ -Now", as in chap. Ezra 1:1: the beginning of a new document. -The province" here and in Nehemiah 1:3; Nehemiah 11:3, is the same as -the province of Juda...
_VER._ 1. _THE CHILDREN OF THE PROVINCE_— i.e. _Of Babylon;_ for they are here spoken of, whom Nebuchadnezzar had brought captive to Babylon; and not those of the ten tribes, who had been dispersed be...
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...
_NOW THESE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE PROVINCE THAT WENT UP OUT OF THE CAPTIVITY, OF THOSE WHICH HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY, WHOM NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING OF BABYLON HAD CARRIED AWAY UNTO BABYLON, AND CAME AGA...
2:1 children (d-5) Lit. 'sons.' province, (e-8) i.e. of Judah. see ch. 5.8; Nehemiah 1:3 ....
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...
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 CHILDREN OF THE PROVINCE THAT WENT UP OUT OF THE CAPTIVITY. — They came from “the captivity,” which was now as it were a generic name — “Children of the captivity” in Babylon (Daniel 2:2), in Juda...
וְ אֵ֣לֶּה ׀ בְּנֵ֣י הַ מְּדִינָ֗ה הָֽ עֹלִים
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...
Now these [are] the children (a) of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and cam...
Now. This catalogue is given again, 2 Esdras vii. 6., and 3 Esdras v. 7., immediately (Haydock) after the long interpolated story (Kennicott) of the three guards, concerning the superior strength of w...
CONTENTS This chapter contains the record of the number which returned of the people from Babylon. Of certain priests, which could not show their pedigree. Ezra 2:1 We are not to suppose that these...
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...
NOW THESE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE PROVINCE,.... Either of the province of Babylon, as Aben Ezra, where they were either born, or had dwelt for many years; or else rather, according to Jarchi, of the p...
Now these [are] the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came ag...
_The children of the province_ That is, of Babylon, for they are here spoken of whom Nebuchadnezzar had brought captive to Babylon, and not those of the ten tribes, who had been dispersed before, by 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...
THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE PEOPLE...
Now, these are the children of the province, for that is what Judah had now become, a mere province of the Persian empire, THAT WENT UP OUT OF THE CAPTIVITY, OF THOSE WHICH HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY, as d...
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...
EZRA CHAPTER 2 The number of the people that returned, EZRA 2:1; and of the priests, EZRA 2:36; of the Levites, EZRA 2:40; of the singers, Ezra 2:41
Ezra 2:1 people H1121 province H4082 back H5927 (H8802) captivity H7628 away H1473 Nebuchadnezzar H5019 king H4428 Babylon...
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...
ARE THE CHILDREN Probably individuals from all of the tribes returned to Jerusalem under Zerubbabel, Ezra and Nehemiah, but speaking broadly, the dispersion of the ten tribes (Ephraim-Israel) still c...
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...
_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...
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...
2 Chronicles 36:1; 2 Kings 24:14; 2 Kings 25:11; Acts 23:34; E
The province — Of Judah, called a province, Ezra 5:8. And he calls it thus emphatically to mind himself and his brethren of that sad change which their sins had made among them, that from an illustrio...
FF— Why are many of the numbers in Ezra’s list of those who returned to Jerusalem different from those in Nehemiah 7? PROBLEM: In the record of those who returned to Jerusalem under the leadership of...