Ezra 2:62

_THESE SOUGHT THEIR REGISTER AMONG THOSE THAT WERE RECKONED BY GENEALOGY, BUT THEY WERE NOT FOUND: THEREFORE WERE THEY, AS POLLUTED, PUT FROM THE PRIESTHOOD._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

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 that they are, by the new birth, spiritual priests unto God, through Jesus Christ, have no right to the comforts and privileges of Christians....

EXPOSITION THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM CAPTIVITY WITH ZERUBBABEL, AND THE NAMES OF THE CHIEFS (Ezra 2:1). It has been argued that the whole of this chapter is out of place here, and has been transferred hither from Nehemiah (Nehemiah 7:6), where it occupies its rightful position (Bishop A. Hervey). According to this view, the list is one embodying the results of the census made by Nehemiah, not a list of those who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel But it seems strange that such a theory should ever h

THESE SOUGHT THEIR REGISTER AMONG THOSE THAT WERE RECKONED BY GENEALOGY,.... To find their names written and registered there; for the Jews kept public registers of their priests, their descent, marriages, and offspring, that it might be known who were fit, and who not, to officiate as such: BUT THEY WERE NOT FOUND; their names were not there, nor any account taken of them: THEREFORE WERE THEY, AS POLLUTED, PUT FROM THE PRIESTHOOD; were not suffered to attend at the altar, and offer sacrifice, and enjoy the privileges belonging to that office....

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 (Ezra 2:40) 5. The porters and Nethinim (Ezra 2:42) 6. Solomon's servants (Ezra 2:55) 7. Those of doubtful descent (Ezra 2:59) 8. The number of the whole company ...

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. _medinah,_ equivalent to the Persian satrapy. It refers here to the tract of country, with Jerusalem as its centre (_cf._ Ezra 5:8; Nehemiah 1:3; Nehemiah 11:3), over which Zerubbabel was governor, the province of Judah. ZERUBBABEL: seed of Babel; according to

AS POLLUTED, PUT. Revised Version. deemed polluted and put. Hebrew. _gaal,_ to pollute; not _ga'al,_ to redeem. Supply _Ellipsis_ thus: "therefore were they [rejected] from the priesthood as polluted", So in Nehemiah 7:64; Nehemiah 13:29; Isaiah 59:3; Isaiah 63:3.Lamentations 4:14.Zephaniah 3:1. Mai. Ezra 1:7....

_these sought their register_&c. Literally -These sought their writing (LXX. γραφὴν αὐτῶν), the enrolled", i.e. they searched for their genealogy in the priestly book, which went by the name of -The Enrolled", or as we should now call it -The Register". Compare -the writing (mrg. -register") of the house of Israel" in Ezekiel 13:9, where the same word is used in the original. _therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood_ R.V. THEREFORE WERE THEY DEEMED POLLUTED AND PUT FROM THE PRIESTHOOD. The margin _Heb. -they were polluted from the priesthood"_gives the literal, rendering. To be declared polluted was equivalent to being excluded from any active part in the office and administration of the priesthood. They were to be accounted -polluted", until their claim could be established. The importance attached to the genealogical accuracy of the claims p

TEXT, EZRA 2:59-63 59 Now these are those who came up from Tel-melah, Telharsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they were not able to give evidence of their fathers-' households, and their descendants, whether they were of Israel: 60 the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 652. 61 And of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and he was called by their name. 62 These searched among their ancestral registration, but they could not be located; therefore they were considered unclean and were excluded from the priesthood. 63 And the governor said to them that they should not eat from the most holy things until a priest stood up with Urim and Thummim. COMMENT In...

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 towns. This process can only have taken place very gradually....