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 children below twelve were not reckoned. Many expedients of reconciliation have been adopted; but it is better to suppose that errors had crept into the original documents.
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...
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....
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...
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...
_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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
כָּל ־הַ קָּהָ֖ל כְּ אֶחָ֑ד אַרְבַּ֣ע רִבֹּ֔ו
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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 PEOPLE AND THE PRIESTS WITHOUT GENEALOGY...
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore. This number is twelve thousand greater than the sum of the numbers, for to the returning exiles must be added t...
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...
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...
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...
Ezra 2:64 assembly H6951 together H259 forty-two H702 H7239 thousand H505 three H7969 hundred H3967 sixty H8346...
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...
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...
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...
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 9:8; Isaiah 10:20; Jeremiah 23:3; Nehemiah 7:66...
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...