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Verse 21. _THE CHILDREN OF BETH-LEHEM_] The inhabitants: see before....
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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 (Ez
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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....
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Names of towns and places. It is possible that the register dealt
first with the dwellers in Jerusalem. The inhabitants of the towns and
places nearest to Jerusalem and best known are mentioned next:...
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_Beth-lehem_ or -the house of bread": sometimes called Bethlehem of
Judah to distinguish it from the Bethlehem in Zebulon (Joshua 19:15).
Its name implies the fruitfulness of the soil. The name of Eph...
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3. Next it includes people identified mainly by their towns.
TEXT, EZRA 2:21-35
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the men of Bethlehem, 123;
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the men of Netophah, 56;
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the men of Anathoth, 128;
24
the sons of Azmaveth,...
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_THE CHILDREN OF BETHLEHEM, AN HUNDRED TWENTY AND THREE._
The children of Beth-lehem - [Septuagint, Beethlaem]....
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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 t...
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THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM
EZRA
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 2
In the Book of Ezra, there are many names. Some of these people were
leaders. However, Ezra also refers to many people who were not
wel...
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בְּנֵ֣י בֵֽית־לָ֔חֶם מֵאָ֖ה
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּ שְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ ס...
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THE SECOND EXODUS
Ezra 2:1
THE journey of the returning exiles from Babylon has some points of
resemblance to the exodus of their fathers from Egypt. On both
occasions the Israelites had been sufferi...
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Chapter two contains the register of those who, taking advantage f
Cyrus's decree, turned their faces toward Jerusalem. The list proceeds
in a definite order, from the leaders downward. First, the nam...
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(f) The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three.
(f) That is inhabitants, for so this word
(some) signifies when it is joined with the names of places....
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No doubt during the captivity a faithful register was kept of the
several families, and therefore their number was the more clearly
ascertained. Chiefly with an eye to the promised Messiah, each fathe...
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Nevertheless, God still gives the people-guilty under the law-an
opportunity for the exercise of faith. Let us examine the principles
that characterise the energy of the Holy Ghost in the people at th...
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Ezra 2:3....
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_The children of Gibbar_ Or, as it is in Nehemiah 7:25, _of Gibeon_,
these being the citizens of that city. For this is not the name of a
man, but of a place; and the same may be said of several names...
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1 The number that returne, of the people,
36 of the Priests,
40 of the Leuites,
43 of the Nethinims,
55 of Solomons seruants,
62 of the Priests which could not shewe their pedigree.
64 The whole...
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THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE PEOPLE...
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The children of Bethlehem, the former inhabitants of the city and
their descendants, AN HUNDRED TWENTY AND THREE....
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LIST OF RETURNED CAPTIVES
(vv. 1-58)
This chapter shows the definite interest God had in every individual
who returned from the captivity, so that the number from each city is
recorded, and the tota...
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1-35 An account was kept of the families that came up out of
captivity. See how sin lowers a nation, which righteousness would
exalt!...
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EZRA 2:21 PEOPLE H1121 BETHLEHEM H1035 HUNDRED H3967 TWENTY-THREE
H6242 H7969
Bethlehem - 1 Chronicles 2:50-
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ENROLLED BY DOMICILE.
We now come to those families who submitted their numbers in terms of
domicile. This may simply have been as a consequence of the choice of
the particular submitter, or it may ha...
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A LIST OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM BABYLON TO JERUSALEM IN THE INITIAL
STAGES (EZRA 2:1).
In this chapter we are provided with a list of those who returned from
Babylon, taking advantage of Cyrus' edic...
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CONTENTS: The returning remnant.
CHARACTERS: God, Zerubbabel.
CONCLUSION: Sin debases and diminishes a nation but God always has a
faithful remnant who love the ceremonies of His house and give
libe...
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Ezra 2:1. _The children of the province._ Judea under Zedekiah was
reduced to a province of the Babylonian empire; or the phrase may
import, the children of Israel who resided in the province of
Babyl...
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_The number of the men of the people of Israel._
A SUGGESTIVE RECORD
Consider--
I. The significance of the fact of the record.
1. It Was an honour to the pious and patriotic ones who returned.
2....
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EZRA 2:1 The Exiles Live Again in Their Ancestral Homes. This long
chapter tells of the exiles’ return from Babylon to resettle in
their former homes in Jerusalem and Judah. (The information in ch.
Ez...
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EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 2:2 The laity is described partly by kinship (vv.
Ezra 2:2) and partly by place (vv. Ezra 2:20), without a real
distincti
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] In this chapter we have _the list of
those who returned from captivity with Zerubbabel, and their
contributions for rebuilding the Temple_. The contents may be arrange...
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EXPOSITION
THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM CAPTIVITY WITH ZERUBBABEL, AND
THE NAMES OF THE CHIEFS (Ezra 2:1). It has
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So here they are returning to Jerusalem, as I said, some fifty
thousand. And in chapter two it gives you the names of the people and
the families that came and the numbers that came with them. Beginni...
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1 Chronicles 2:50...
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Beth — lehem — And so these were the remainders of the inhabitants
of that city. (And the like may be said of the two following names,
Netophah and Anathoth, or others of the like nature.) So little w...