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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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_Nekoda_ See Ezra 2:48. The occurrence of the same name in two places
may be accidental. But it is possible that the family of Nekoda which
ranked among the Nethinim sought to establish a claim to a p...
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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 descendant...
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_THE CHILDREN OF DELAIAH, THE CHILDREN OF TOBIAH, THE CHILDREN OF
NEKODA, SIX HUNDRED FIFTY AND TWO._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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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(59-63) Finally, those who had lost the records of their lineage are
mentioned. Of the people, the children of three families from
Tel-melah, _Hill of salt,_ Tel-harsa, _Hill of the wood,_ and a few
o...
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בְּנֵי ־דְלָיָ֥ה בְנֵי ־טֹובִיָּ֖ה
בְּנֵ֣י נְקֹודָ֑א...
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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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This inability to prove their stock of Israel is mentioned as a
reproach. But yet we find that they were of those whose hearts the
Lord had inclined to go to Jerusalem; were they not types also of
tho...
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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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THE CHILDREN OF DELAIAH, THE CHILDREN OF TOBIAH, AND THE CHILDREN OF
NEKODA, SIX HUNDRED FIFTY AND TWO. These, though their immediate
parents were known, yet by their being mentioned here, it seems as...
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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 children of Delaiah, the children of Toblah, the children of
Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two. They were not mere adventurers, but
had been urged to join the company of returning exiles by their...
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THE PEOPLE AND THE PRIESTS WITHOUT GENEALOGY...
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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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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...
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Ezra 2:60 sons H1121 Delaiah H1806 sons H1121 Tobiah H2900 sons H1121
Nekoda H5353 six H8337 hundred H3967 fifty-two...
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THE ENROLLING OF THE NON-PRIESTS WHO COULD NOT PROVE THEIR DESCENT
FROM ISRAEL (EZRA 2:59).
These appear to have been settled in the Babylonian cities described
although the names of the cities mentio...
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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 2:59 WHETHER THEY BELONGED TO ISRAEL. People were
coming back after a long exile to claim inheritance and property, so
credentials needed to be established. EXCLUDED FROM THE PRIESTH...
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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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Nehemiah 7:62...