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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)...
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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 ...
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CHILDREN. sons.
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) in this verse.
NETHINIMS. See note on Ezra 2:43....
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_And there went up_some _of the children of Israel_ FOR "some of"
compare Ezra 2:70.
some _of the children of Israel_ i.e. a portion of the lay element of
the Jewish community at Babylon, mainly of t...
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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...
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_AND THERE WENT UP SOME OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND OF THE PRIESTS,
AND THE LEVITES, AND THE SINGERS, AND THE PORTERS, AND THE NETHINIMS,
UNTO JERUSALEM, IN THE SEVENTH YEAR OF ARTAXERXES THE KING....
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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...
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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...
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וַ יַּֽעֲל֣וּ מִ בְּנֵֽי ־יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל
וּ מִן
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AND THERE WENT UP SOME OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... Perhaps some of
the ten tribes, as well as others of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin;
who, notwithstanding the edict of Cyrus, chose to remain in...
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_And there went up [some] of the children of Israel, and of the
priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the
Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the
kin...
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_There went up some of the children of Israel_ This was the second
company that went up to Jerusalem, consisting of such like persons as
went up at first with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and others, Ezra 2:2;...
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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...
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And there went up, subsequently, SOME OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND
OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES, AND THE SINGERS, AND THE PORTERS, AND
THE NETHINIM, the lower servants of the Temple, to whom the m...
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THE JOURNEY OF EZRA AND HIS COMPANY...
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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...
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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...
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This is here related in the general, but how he procured this is
particularly related hereafter....
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Ezra 7:7 children H1121 Israel H3478 priests H3548 Levites H3881
singers H7891 (H8789) gatekeepers H7778 Nethinim H5411 up...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 7:6 Ezra is A SCRIBE SKILLED IN THE LAW OF MOSES.
The people badly need instruction in the law. Ezra has apparently
asked the king for permission and resources to go TO JERUSALEM (v....
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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...
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PART II.
SECOND RETURN OF THE ISRAELITES FROM CAPTIVITY UNDER EZRA.
1. DECREE OF ARTAXERXES, AND RETURN UNDER EZRA, WITH THE...
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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...