Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Ezra 2:36
The priests Having numbered the people that went of Judah and Benjamin, he proceeds now to the tribe of Levi, and first mentions the priests.
The priests Having numbered the people that went of Judah and Benjamin, he proceeds now to the tribe of Levi, and first mentions the priests.
Verse 36. _THE PRIESTS_] The preceding list takes in the census of Judah and Benjamin....
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....
JEDAIAH. The head of the ninth course (1 Chronicles 24:11)....
The names and numbers of the houses of the priests correspond exactly in the three registers....
_the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua_ In the 24 Priestly houses enumerated in 1 Chronicles 24:7-18, the house of Jedaiah stands second. The words -of the house of Jeshua" have been differ...
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 PRIESTS: THE CHILDREN OF JEDAIAH, OF THE HOUSE OF JESHUA, NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY AND THREE._ The priests. Each of their families was ranged under its prince or head, like those of the other tribes...
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 PRIESTS: THE CHILDREN OF JEDAIAH. — The priests are then given by family names, their numbers being very large in proportion to each of the other classes. Three only of David’s priestly courses ar...
הַֽ כֹּהֲנִ֑ים בְּנֵ֤י יְדַֽעְיָה֙ לְ בֵ֣ית י
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...
The (g) priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three. (g) Before he has declared the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and now comes to the tribe of Levi a...
_Josue, the high priest, ver. 2._...
This list is of the priests. And a very large proportion they were to the whole mass; somewhat about a tenth part....
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. 36-39. THE PRIESTS,.... An account of them is given in this and the three following verses, and only four families are mentioned, those of Jedaiah, Immer, Pashur, and Harim, and the number of the...
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 priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, the latter being the first high priest of the new community, a grandson of Seraiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar had put to death at Riblah, 2 King...
THE PRIESTS, LEVITES, AND SERVANTS OF THE TEMPLE...
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...
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 2:36 priests H3548 sons H1121 Jedaiah H3048 house H1004 Jeshua H3442 nine H8672 hundred H3967 seventy-three H7657
ENROLLING OF THE PRIESTS (EZRA 2:36). The priests were divided up into four courses, as opposed to the twenty four courses pertaining under David (1 Chronicles 24:1). But these four courses would even...
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...
1 Chronicles 24:7; 1 Chronicles 9:10; Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 7:39...