The children of Parosh A strange proper name, meaning a -flea". A special branch of this family, called after Shechaniah, returned with Ezra (Ezra 8:3). Members of the family are mentioned as having married -strange wives" (Ezra 10:25) and as assisting in the rebuilding of the walls (Nehemiah 3:25).
Verse Ezra 2:3. _THE CHILDREN OF PAROSH_] Where the word _children_ is found in this table, prefixed to the name of a _man_, it signifies the _descendants_ of that person, as from Ezra 2:3. Where it...
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....
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...
_THE CHILDREN OF PAROSH, TWO THOUSAND AN HUNDRED SEVENTY AND TWO._ The children. This word, as used throughout this catalogue, means posterity or descendants. OF PAROSH, х_ PAR`OSH_ (H6551); Septuag...
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 PAROSH ... — Then comes the enumeration of the family and local names. In the following instances we note when two of the three authorities agree. In Ezra 2:6, Ezra is confirmed by 1 E...
בְּנֵ֣י פַרְעֹ֔שׁ אַלְפַּ֕יִם מֵאָ֖ה שִׁבְעִ֥ים וּ...
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...
_Children. When this term precedes the name of a man, it means his offspring; (ver. 3, 20.) when placed before a city, it denotes the inhabitants, ver. 21, 35. (Calmet) --- The lay Israelites are plac...
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...
Ver. 3-35. THE CHILDREN OF PAROSH, TWO THOUSAND AN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY TWO. From hence, to the end of Ezra 2:35, a list is given of the captives that returned, described by the families they were of,...
The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two. Ver. 3. _The children of Parosh_] Question is here made by some, whether this and other like Chapter s, that are nothing but names and...
_The children_ The posterity, as that word is generally taken in this catalogue. _Of Parosh_ That descended either from Parosh, or from that family whereof Parosh was the chief. And so for the rest....
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 children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred and seventy and two....
THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE PEOPLE...
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...
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!...
i.e. The posterity (as that word is for the most part, if not constantly, taken in this catalogue) that descended either from Parosh, or from that family whereof Parosh was the chief. And so for the r...
Ezra 2:3 people H1121 Parosh H6551 thousand H505 hundred H3967 seventy-two H7657 H8147 children - Ezra
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 2:2 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 10:25; Ezra 8:3; Nehemiah 7:8...
The children — The posterity, as that word is constantly taken in this catalogue. Of Parosh — That descend either from Parosh, or from that family whereof Parosh was the chief. And so for the rest....