Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Ezra 2:67
The asses, as throughout earlier Hebrew history, are the chief and most numerous beasts of burden.
The asses, as throughout earlier Hebrew history, are the chief and most numerous beasts of burden.
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....
_camels_ The camel is mentioned in the O.T. chiefly as the beast of burden of nomad families and races, e.g. Ishmaelites (Genesis 37:25), Midianites and Amalekites (Judges 6:5; 1 Samuel 30:17). It wou...
7. Next is a listing of their livestock. TEXT, EZRA 2:66-67 66 Their horses were 736; their mules, 245; 67 their camels, 435; their donkeys, 6,720. COMMENT This is not a very large number of an...
_BESIDE THEIR SERVANTS AND THEIR MAIDS, OF WHOM THERE WERE SEVEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED THIRTY AND SEVEN: AND THERE WERE AMONG THEM TWO HUNDRED SINGING MEN AND SINGING WOMEN._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THE...
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...
גְּמַ֨לֵּיהֶ֔ם אַרְבַּ֥ע מֵאֹ֖ות שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים וַ חֲמִשָּׁ֑ה...
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...
Their treasures of cattle make no inconsiderable figure, considering that they came out of a long captivity....
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...
Ezra 2:66....
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...
their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty....
THE POSSESSIONS AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE RETURNED EXILES...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Ezra 2:67 camels H1581 four H702 hundred H3967 thirty-five H7970 H2568 donkeys H2543 six H8337 thousand H505 seven...
ENUMERATION OF THE BEASTS OF BURDEN (EZRA 2:66). Ezra 2:66 ‘Their horses were seven hundred and thirty six; their mules, two hundred and forty five; their camels, four hundred and thirty five; their...
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...
_And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem, offered freely._ POSSESSIONS AND OFFERINGS I. The completion of their journey. “They came to the...
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...