Ezra 8:3

_OF THE SONS OF PHINEHAS; GERSHOM: OF THE SONS OF ITHAMAR; DANIEL: OF THE SONS OF DAVID; HATTUSH._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

1-20 Ezra assembles the outcasts of Israel, and the dispersed of Judah. God raised up the spirits of a small remnant to accompany him. What a pity that good men should omit a good work, for want of being spoken to!...

Verse Ezra 8:3. _OF THE SONS OF SHECHANIAH_] There were three of this name; the second is mentioned Ezra 8:6, and the third Ezra 10:2. They were all different persons, as may be seen from their fathers' houses....

Punctuate as follows: Ezra 8:2. ... of the sons of David, Hattush of the sons of Shechaniah. Ezra 8:3. Of the sons of Pharosh, Zechariah .... Hattush, the descendant of David, was the grandson of Shechaniah (see marginal reference). Most of these names Ezra 8:2 occur also as those of heads of families in the list of the Jews who returned with Zerubbabel Ezra 2:3. The Septuagint and Syriac versions supply omissions in Ezra 8:5,...

EXPOSITION THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO WENT UP TO JERUSALEM WITH EZRA, AND THE NAMES OF THE CHIEF MEN (Ezra 8:1). This list is parallel with that of Ezra 2:3, and repeats for the most part the same family names, though not quite in the same order. The numbers are in each case very much smaller, never amounting to one-third, and sometimes falling below one-twelfth. At the utmost, three new families are mentioned as furnishing colonists those of Shechaniah ...

Ver. 3-14. OF THE SONS OF SHECHANIAH, OF THE SONS OF PHAROSH,.... Who is so described, to distinguish him from another Shechaniah, Ezra 8:5, ZECHARIAH: AND WITH HIM WERE RECKONED BY GENEALOGY, OF THE MALES AN HUNDRED AND FIFTY; males only were reckoned, not women and children; though that there were such that went up is clear from Ezra 8:21, from hence to the end of Ezra 8:14 an account is given of the number of the males that went up with Ezra, who were chiefly, if not altogether, sons of those that went up with Zerubbabel; such of them as were left there behind, and now returned, at least a great number of them, see Ezra 2:1, it is particularly remar

CHAPTER 8 _ 1. Those who returned with Ezra (Ezra 8:1)_ 2. The gathering at Ahava (Ezra 8:15) 3. The fast proclaimed (Ezra 8:21) 4. The appointment of guardians (Ezra 8:24) 5. The departure and arrival in Jerusalem (Ezra 8:31) Ezra 8:1. The names of those who gathered around Ezra and went up with him are here recorded. In view of the magnificent decree and liberality of Artaxerxes, the company was very small. The majority preferred Babylon, and remained t

A LIST OF HEADS OF FAMILIES. It contains the names of the heads of the families who returned to Palestine with Ezra....

BY GENEALOGY. a lineage....

This verse should begin with -of the sons of Parosh" (see note on Ezra 8:2). -by genealogy of the males". The present list differs in this respect from that recorded in chap. 2. There the total numbers are given; here the number of the males only....