CHAPTER II _An account of those who returned from Babylon_, 1-35. _The children of the priests who returned_, 36-39. _Of the Levites_, 40. _Of the singers_, 41. _Of the porters_, 42. _Of the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants_, 43-58. _Others who could not find out their registe... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezra 2:2. _WHICH CAME WITH ZERUBBABEL_] There are many difficulties in this table of names; but as we have no less than _three_ copies of it, _that_ contained here from Ezra 2:1, a _second_ in Nehemiah 7:6, and a _third_ in _1Esdras 5:7-43_, on a careful examination they will be found to corre... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezra 2:3. _THE CHILDREN OF PAROSH_] Where the word _children_ is found in this table, prefixed to the name of a _man_, it signifies the _descendants_ of that person, as from Ezra 2:3. Where it is found prefixed to a _place, town_, c., it signifies the inhabitants of that place, as from Ezra 2:... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 21. _THE CHILDREN OF BETH-LEHEM_] The inhabitants: see before.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 33. _THE CHILDREN OF LOD, HADID, AND ONO_] These were cities in the tribe of Benjamin; see on 1 Chronicles 8:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 36. _THE PRIESTS_] The preceding list takes in the census of Judah and Benjamin.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 55. _THE CHILDREN OF SOLOMON'S SERVANTS_] The _Nethinim_, and others appointed to do the meaner services of the holy house.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse 63. _THE TIRSHATHA_] This is generally supposed to be Nehemiah, or the person who was the commandant; see Nehemiah 8:9; Nehemiah 10:1, for the word appears to be the name of an _office_. The _Vulgate_ and _Septuagint_ write it _Atershatha_, the _Syriac_ and _Arabic_ render it _the princes of J... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezra 2:66. _THEIR HORSES - SEVEN HUNDRED, C._] They went into captivity, stripped of every thing they now return from it, abounding in the most substantial riches, viz., horses 736, or, according to Esdras, 7036; mules, 245; camels, 435; asses, 6720; besides gold, and silver, and rich stuffs.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezra 2:69. _THREESCORE AND ONE THOUSAND DRAMS OF GOLD_] דרכמונים _darkemonim_, drakmons or darics; a Persian coin, always of gold, and worth about 1_£_. 5_s_., not less than _£_76,250 sterling in gold. _FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS OF SILVER_] מנים _manim_, manehs or minas. As a _weight_, the _maneh_... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezra 2:70. _DWELT IN THEIR CITIES_] They all went to those cities which belonged originally to their respective families.... [ Continue Reading ]