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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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HARIM. The third course. These four were subdivided into six each,
making the twenty-four....
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The names and numbers of the houses of the priests correspond exactly
in the three registers....
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_Harim_ The name of Harim appears in 1 Chronicles 24:8 as that of the
third priestly house....
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4. Also important enough to be mentioned were certain people connected
with the Temple and religious worship.
TEXT, EZRA 2:36-58
36
The priests: the sons of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua, 973;
37...
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_THE CHILDREN OF HARIM, A THOUSAND AND SEVENTEEN._
The children of Harim. He was the head of the third division of the
priests (1 Chronicles 24:8)....
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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 חָרִ֔ם אֶ֖לֶף וְ שִׁבְעָ֥ה
עָשָֽׂר׃ 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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This list is of the priests. And a very large proportion they were to
the whole mass; somewhat about a tenth part....
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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 2:36....
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_The children of Harim_ The head of one of the twenty-four courses
which David appointed, (1 Chronicles 24:8,) of all which courses, some
observe here, are not above four or five that returned. There...
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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 PRIESTS, LEVITES, AND SERVANTS OF THE TEMPLE...
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The children of Rarim, a thousand and seventeen. This list shows only
four courses of priests, but these four were afterwards again
increased to twenty-four, according to the division of David and wit...
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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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The head of one of the twenty-four courses which David appointed, 1
CHRONICLES 24:8; of all which courses, some observe, here are not
above four or five that returned. There is another Harim mentioned...
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Ezra 2:39 sons H1121 Harim H2766 thousand H505 seventeen H7651 H6240
Harim - Ezra 10:21;...
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ENROLLING OF THE PRIESTS (EZRA 2:36).
The priests were divided up into four courses, as opposed to the
twenty four courses pertaining under David (1 Chronicles 24:1). But
these four courses would even...
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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 2:36 Temple officials are divided by function,
headed by the PRIESTS and LEVITES. The priests (vv. Ezra 2:36) are
most impor
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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 24:8; Ezra 10:21; Nehemiah 7:42...