Only a portion of the Israelites took advantage of the permission of Cyrus. Many remained in Babylon, since they were disinclined to relinquish their property. They who returned were persons whom God had especially stirred up to make sacrifices for His glory.
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE RETURN UNDER ZERUBBABEL AND THE REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The proclamation of Cyrus (Ezra 1:1)_ 2. The response of the chiefs of Judah and Benjamin (E...
THE RETURN OF THE JEWS UNDER SHESHBAZZAR WITH THE HOLY VESSELS. The carrying out of the decree. Ezra 1:5. even all. Jerusalem: implying that many did not avail themselves of the opportunity of return...
THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS: i.e. those named in the next chapter. CHIEF. heads. JUDAH AND BENJAMIN. But the other tribes found representatives. Compare Ezra 2:59; Ezra 2:70, where the terms "of Israel...
The Return of the Jews under Sheshbazzar: a brief summary of events 5. _the chief of the fathers_ R.V. THE HEADS OF FATHERS" HOUSES. Literally rendered, the term would be -the heads of the fathers". C...
2. The people return and begin to rebuild. TEXT, EZRA 1:5-11 5 Then the heads of fathers-' households of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites arose, even everyone whose spirit God had...
_THEN ROSE UP THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN, AND THE PRIESTS, AND THE LEVITES, WITH ALL THEM WHOSE SPIRIT GOD HAD RAISED, TO GO UP TO BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM...
THE RETURN OF THE JEWS FROM CAPTIVITY The chapter narrates how Cyrus, king of Persia, permitted the Jews in Babylon to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple there, and restored the vessels taken...
WHOSE SPIRIT, etc.] It was only a small proportion of the exiled Jews who were inspired with such zeal for their land and the sanctuary of their God as to exchange the comfort of Babylon for the desol...
THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM EZRA _ROBERT BRYCE_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF EZRA There are many dates in this *introduction. These dates are the number of years before the time that Jesus Christ was born...
(5-11) Immediate result of the decree. (5) WITH ALL THEM WHOSE SPIRIT GOD HAD RAISED. — _Namely, all_ is the more exact rendering. The same influence that prompted the decree of Cyrus was necessary to...
וַ יָּק֜וּמוּ רָאשֵׁ֣י הָ אָבֹ֗ות לִֽ יהוּדָה
GOD'S PROMISES FULFILLED Ezra 1:1 God will ever be mindful of His covenant. There were also many remembrancers as Daniel and other like-minded exiles who gave Him no rest and were ever asking Him for...
The Book of Ezra contains an account of a most important epoch in the history of the people of God. After seventy years of captivity, a return from captivity was made possible by the decree of a Genti...
It should seem that many of the people remained in Babylon reconciled to their captivity, and had mingled with the Chaldees. An awful representation of characters, in all ages, whose condemnation is t...
But God now brings back a little remnant, that the true King might be presented to them, and causes the temple to be rebuilt in its place, according to the promises given by the mouth of Jeremiah, and...
THEN ROSE UP THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN,.... Princes of these tribes, and heads of families in them, and of some other tribes too, though chiefly of these, as appears from 1 Chroni...
Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all [them] whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which [is] in Jerusa...
Ezra 1:5. _Then rose up the chief of the fathers_, &c. Eminent and experienced men, from whom it might justly be expected, that, as they were above their brethren in dignity, so they should go before...
[ISRAELS RETURNE FROM BABYLON.] 1 The Proclamation of Cyrus for the building of the Temple. 5 The people prouide for the returne. 7 Cyrus restoreth the vessels of the Temple to Sheshbazzar. 1 NOW i...
THE RETURN ARRANGED FOR...
Then rose up the chief of the fathers, the heads of the divisions known as father-houses, OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN, for these two tribes were chiefly concerned in this exile and the return, AND THE PRIES...
THE CAPTIVES OF JUDAH LIBERATED (vv. 1-11) When the Medes and Persians defeated Babylon, Darius the Mede was ruler, and not until Cyrus the Persian took the throne was liberty proclaimed to Judah. T...
5-11 The same God that raised up the spirit of Cyrus to proclaim liberty to the Jews, raised up their spirits to take the benefit. The temptation was to some to stay in Babylon; but some feared not t...
THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN; and with them some of other tribes, as appears from 1 CHRONICLES 9:3; but these only are named, because they were most considerable for number and quali...
Ezra 1:5 heads H7218 fathers H1 Judah H3063 Benjamin H1144 priests H3548 Levites H3881 spirits H7307 God H430 moved...
THE RETURN FROM EXILE OF A PORTION OF THE BABYLONIAN EXILES TOGETHER WITH THE TEMPLE VESSELS (EZRA 1:5). . We are informed of the return of the Babylonian exiles mainly because it was with them that t...
THE EDICT OF CYRUS AND ITS RESULT (EZRA 1:1). In 538 BC Cyrus issued an edict allowing Jews to return to their homeland, and authorising the rebuilding of the Temple with state help. The wording of th...
CONTENTS: Decree of Cyrus for restoration of the temple and preparations for the return of the remnant. CHARACTERS: God, Cyrus, Sheshbazzar, Mithredath. CONCLUSION: (Ezra 1:1) The hearts of kings ar...
Ezra 1:1. _In the first year of Cyrus._ Darius had the title of king of Babylon; but according to Xenophon, Cyrus had the throne, and remained in the city. After two years Darius died, and left him th...
_Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord._ THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CAPTIVITY The captivity is clearly represented as God’s judgment upon His people for their sins, but...
EZRA 1:1 Cyrus’s Decree and the Return of Exiles from Babylon. Ezra describes monumental political changes in the world as God’s special work for his people. ⇐...
EZRA 1:5 The Exiles Respond to the Decree. The exiles’ leaders gather money and materials for the temple. Cyrus brings the items taken from the temple in 586 B.C. for the people to take back to Jerusa...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] In this chapter we have (i.) the proclamation of Cyrus (Ezra 1:1); (ii.) the preparation of the Jews for availing themselves of it (Ezra 1:5) and (iii.) the restoratio...
EXPOSITION THE RESPONSE TO THE DECREE (Ezra 1:5). The response made to the decree fell short of what might have been expected. The "patriarchal chiefs" who responded belonged solely, or mainly, to the...
Let's turn now to the book of Ezra. The book of Ezra, the first part was probably written by Ezra but written from the records. Actually at the time that Cyrus gave the decree to build the temple, Ezr...
2 Chronicles 36:22; 2 Corinthians 8:16; 3 John 1:11; Ezra 1:1; Jam
Then rose up, &c. — These being a new generation, went out like their father Abraham, from this land of the Chaldees, not knowing whither they went....