Upon the fourteenth day of the first month. — Recording the special celebration of the Passover — after the precedent of Hezekiah and Josiah — Ezra returns to the Hebrew language. The occasion was, as it were, a renewal of the redemption from Egypt, and another wilderness had been passed.
With this verse the writer resumes the use of the Hebrew language, which he had discarded for the Chaldee from Ezra 4:8. With the exception of the letter of Artaxerxes Ezra 7:12, all the remainder of...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The search of the king and the result (Ezra 6:1)_ 2. The command of Darius (Ezra 6:6) 3. The king's command obeyed (Ezra 6:13) 4. The house finished ...
THE CELEBRATION OF THE PASSOVER. Hebrew is resumed here. Ezra 6:19. the fourteenth day of the first month: _cf._ Exodus 12:6. The leading part taken by the Levites here is not in accordance with earli...
AND, &C. Here recommences the Hebrew language. See note on Ezra 4:8. KEPT THE PASSOVER. One of the ten so recorded. See note on Exodus 12:28....
The Hebrew is here resumed. _the children of the captivity_ cf. Ezra 6:16; Ezra 8:35. _kept the passover_ on the 14th of the 1st month (Nisan) as was commanded in Exodus 12:6. Very few celebrations o...
4. The Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread observed TEXT, Ezra 6:19-22 19 And the exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month. 20 For the priests and the Levites had puri...
_AND THE CHILDREN OF THE CAPTIVITY KEPT THE PASSOVER UPON THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
COMPLETION AND DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE This chapter relates the authorisation of the construction of the Temple, and the completion of the work....
THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM EZRA _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 6 V1 Then King Darius gave a command. So people searched in the records. Those records were in the house of the records in the city calle...
וַ יַּעֲשׂ֥וּ בְנֵי ־הַ גֹּולָ֖ה אֶת ־הַ
THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE Ezra 6:6 THE chronicler's version of the edict in which Darius replies to the application of the Satrap Tattenai is so very friendly to the Jews that questions have been...
PROSPERED IN A DIFFICULT WORK Ezra 6:1 How much depended on the finding of that roll! But God knew where it was, and led them to discover it, and inclined Darius to ratify it. When we are anxious and...
There can be no doubt that Tattenai felt that finding such a decree was unlikely, if not impossible. That the search must have been thorough is indicated by the place where the roll was found. The sea...
_And. Here the author resumes the Hebrew language. (Calmet) --- Captivity, from which they were released, ver. 17. (Haydock)_...
How beautiful and truly interesting is it, to discover, more or less, through the Bible, from the first forming of the church on our fathers coming out of Egypt, even to the days of the Lord Jesus, ho...
All this shews us that, in ceasing to build the temple, Israel was in fault. It appears from Haggai (Ezra 2:15) that they had made no progress at all. The terror with which the adversaries had inspire...
AND THE CHILDREN OF THE CAPTIVITY KEPT THE PASSOVER UPON THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH. The month Nisan or Abib, which was the month following that in which the temple was finished, Ezra 6:15,...
And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth [day] of the first month. Ver. 19. _And the children of the captivity_] So the returned captives are called, first, to keep sti...
_And the children, of the captivity kept the passover_ Now they were newly delivered out of their bondage in Babylon, it was seasonable to commemorate their deliverance out of their bondage in Egypt....
1 Darius finding the decree of Cyrus, maketh a new decree for the aduancement of the building. 13 By the helpe of the enemies, and the directions of the prophets, the Temple is finished. 16 The feas...
And the children of the captivity kept the Passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month, very shortly after the dedication of the Temple, which may have taken place before the end of the previo...
THE SECOND TEMPLE DEDICATED...
Having received the letter from Tattenai, Darius ordered that a search be made in the archives where the treasures were stored in Babylon.There is no doubt that God led the searchers to Achmetha in th...
13-22 The gospel church, that spiritual temple, is long in the building, but it will be finished at last, when the mystical body is completed. Every believer is a living temple, building up himself i...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Ezra 6:19 descendants H1121 captivity H1473 kept H6213 (H8799) Passover H6453 fourteenth H702 H6240 first H7223 month...
THE WRITER NOW COMMENCES AGAIN IN HEBREW. The writer now changes back from using Aramaic to using Hebrew. This is in order that the whole passage from Ezra 4:1 to Ezra 6:22, although written mainly in...
FIRST MONTH That is, April....
CONTENTS: Darius confirms the decree of Cyrus. Temple furnished and worship restored. CHARACTERS: God, Darius, Haggai, Zechariah, Tattenai, Shethar-bozenai, Cyrus. CONCLUSION: When God's time has co...
Ezra 6:2. _There was found at Achmetha,_ that is, _Ecbatana,_ the capital of Media, as in the Vulgate, the city where the archives were kept; _a roll_ of the parchment. Revelation 7:1. “(?)” [Revelati...
_And they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai._ THE TRUE PULPIT THE BEST PROMOTER OF HONEST INDUSTRY It-- I. quickens the power of thought. He quickens public thought most who presents the m...
EZRA 6:1 King Darius Discovers and Reaffirms Cyrus’s Decree, and the Work Is Completed. A record of Cyrus’s decree is discovered, and King Darius confirms that the Jews are to be allowed to continue t...
EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 6:19 The text returns from Aramaic to Hebrew in v. Ezra 6:19 (see note on 4:7–8). The PASSOVER is...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] This chapter contains—(i.) The search for and discovery of the decree of Cyrus (Ezra 6:1). (ii.) The decree of Darius for the furtherance of the building of the Temple...
EXPOSITION Ezra 6:13 SO THEY DID SPEEDILY. Tatnai and Shethar-boznai showed no reluctance. They had no enmity against the Jews. Once clearly advertised of the king's wishes, they carried them out wi...
So Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of...
2 Chronicles 35:27; Exodus 12:6; Ezra 6:16; Joshua 5:10...