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Ezra 7:8

And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, after a journey of four months, which was in the seventh year of the king.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezra 7:8. _HE CAME TO JERUSALEM IN THE FIFTH MONTH_] From the following verse we learn that Ezra and his company set off from Babylon on the first day of the first month, and thus we find they...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE RETURN UNDER EZRA AND HIS REFORMATION CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The journey of Ezra to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:1)_ 2. The decree of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:11) 3. Ezra's thanksgiving (Ezra 7:27)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PART II (Ezra 7-10). THE WORK OF EZRA. Ezra 7:1. Ezra's Genealogy; his Return to Palestine. Ezra 7:1. Now after these things: _i.e._ those recorded as having taken place in the sixth year of Darius ...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FIFTH MONTH. Nisan (March-April). App-51....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And he came_ This verse resumes Ezra 7:6. -He came" at the same time with those enumerated in Ezra 7:7. The importance of this journey to Jerusalem centres in Ezra. _the fifth month_ This was the mo...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT III. Ezra Becomes Involved In The Restoration of Israel (Ezra 7:1 to Ezra 10:44) A. Ezra leads a second band of returnees back to Israel, and gives God thanks. 1. Who...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND HE CAME TO JERUSALEM IN THE FIFTH MONTH, WHICH WAS IN THE SEVENTH YEAR OF THE KING._ CAME TO JERUSALEM IN THE FIFTH MONTH - i:e., corresponding to the end of our July or beginning of our August....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE JOURNEY OF EZRA TO JERUSALEM 1. Now after.. Artaxerxes] The interval of time here implied amounted to more than fifty years, from the sixth year of Darius (516 b.c.) to the seventh year of Artaxer...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM EZRA _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 7 In the first 6 Chapter s of the Book of Ezra, we read about the people who returned from *exile. We read how they built the *temple of...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IN THE SEVENTH YEAR. — The repeated notes of time must be marked. The journey itself comes afterwards: it is here indicated as having occupied four months. Ezra’s company also is summarised beforehand...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּבֹ֥א יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם בַּ † חֹ֣דֶשׁ הַ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    EZRA'S EXPEDITION Ezra 7:1 LIKE the earlier pilgrimage of Zerubbabel and his companions, Ezra's great expedition was carried out under a commission from the Persian monarch of his day. The chronicler...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    EZRA THE SCRIBE Ezra 7:1 ALTHOUGH the seventh chapter of Ezra begins with no other indication of time than the vague phrase "Now after these things," nearly sixty years had elapsed between the events...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A MISSIONARY JOURNEY Ezra 7:1 An interval of sixty years intervened between the events of Ezra 6:1 and Ezra 7:1, and in that time the history recorded in the book of Esther took place. This chapter i...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the second section of the Book, that which gathers around the doings of Ezra. Between the close of the last chapter and the commencement of this sixty years had passed away. To a very grea...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And he came to Jerusalem in the (d) fifth month, which [was] in the seventh year (e) of the king. (d) That contained part of July and part of August. (e) Of king Darius....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    We ought to pause over this account, short as it is, of Ezra's character. A scribe was one conversant with the Scriptures; and as Ezra was a ready scribe, and had dedicated himself particularly to thi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7 AND 8. Alas! this was not the end of the history. God, in His goodness, must still watch over the unfaithfulness and the failures of His people, even when t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE CAME TO JERUSALEM IN THE FIFTH MONTH,.... With the above company; this was the month Abib, answering to part of July and part of August: which was in the seventh year of the king; as in the pre...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which [was] in the seventh year of the king. Ver. 8. _And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month_] So that they were four months in coming; and that whic...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Ezra goeth vp to Ierusalem. 11 The gracious commission of Artaxerxes to Ezra. 27 Ezra blesseth God for his fauour. [THE KINGS LETTER.] 1 NOW after these things, in the reigne of Artaxerxes king...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    EZRA'S RETURN TO JERUSALEM (vv. 1-10) These first ten verses form a brief introduction as to who Ezra was and the fact of his coming to Jerusalem. Details are given after this, verses 11 to 26 quoti...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 Ezra went from Babylon to Jerusalem, for the good of his country. The king was kind to him; he granted all his requests, whatever Ezra desired to enable him to serve his country. When he went, ma...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezra 7:8 came H935 (H8799) Jerusalem H3389 fifth H2549 month H2320 seventh H7637 year H8141 king H4428...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    EZRA COMES TO JERUSALEM (EZRA 7:1). Almost sixty years after the completion of the Temple, Ezra arrived in Jerusalem as an Expert in the Law of Moses, eager to teach it to the worshippers of YHWH, and...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ALMOST SIXTY YEARS AFTER THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE EZRA, AN EXPERT IN THE LAW, COMES TO JERUSALEM BRINGING WITH HIM A GROUP OF FELLOW-JEWS AND MUCH TREASURE FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD, BEING AUTHORISED BY...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    FIFTH MONTH That is, August....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Ezra's expedition to Jerusalem and his thanksgiving. CHARACTERS: God, Ezra, Artaxerxes. CONCLUSION: God is able to do for us exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think. When mag...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezra 7:1. _Ezra the son,_ or grandson of _Seraiah._ His genealogy was of the highpriests' line in several ages; and the dignity of his birth might be one cause of his being so much noticed while in Ba...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Ezra the son of Seraiah._ EZRA THE DISTINGUISHED Consider Ezra, as-- I. A man of distinguished ancestry. II. A man of distinguished attainments. III. A man in the enjoyment of distinguished favo...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 7:1 Ezra the Priest Comes to Jerusalem to Establish the Law of Moses. The text now skips ahead 57 years (see note on 7:1–7). Ezra the scribe is charged by King Artaxerxes to establis...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] We now enter upon the second and concluding part of this book, which treats of the return of certain Jews from Babylon to Jerusalem under Ezra, and the reformation whi...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    PART II. SECOND RETURN OF THE ISRAELITES FROM CAPTIVITY UNDER EZRA. 1. DECREE OF ARTAXERXES, AND RETURN UNDER EZRA, WITH THE...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:1) Who is Longimanus of the secular history. Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of...

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