Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezra 2:55
Servants — Who had lived in Solomon's family, and after his death, called themselves and their families by that name, esteeming it a great honour that they had been servants to so great a prince.
Servants — Who had lived in Solomon's family, and after his death, called themselves and their families by that name, esteeming it a great honour that they had been servants to so great a prince.
Verse 55. _THE CHILDREN OF SOLOMON'S SERVANTS_] The _Nethinim_, and others appointed to do the meaner services of the holy house....
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
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....
Solomon's servants, a class similar to the Nethinim, with whom they are also found in conjunction Nehemiah 7:60; Nehemiah 11:3. They are apparently included under the more general term Nethinim in suc...
_Sophereth_ R.V. HASSOPHERETH. The A.V. gives the name as it appears in Nehemiah 7:57. _Peruda_ appears in Nehemiah 7:57 as -Perida"....
_VER._ 55. _THE CHILDREN OF SOLOMON'S SERVANTS_— i.e. Of the Nethinims. See 1 Chronicles 9:2 and Calmet on the place....
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...
_THE CHILDREN OF SOLOMON'S SERVANTS: THE CHILDREN OF SOTAI, THE CHILDREN OF SOPHERETH, THE CHILDREN OF PERUDA,_ The children of Solomon's servants - the strangers, Canaanites, or original inhabitants...
THE CHILDREN OF SOLOMON'S SERVANTS] probably descendants of the native Canaanites employed by Solomon on his buildings: see 1 Kings 9:21....
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...
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...
(43-58) THE NETHINIMS. — By the etymology _those given:_ known by this name only in the later books. (See 1 Chronicles 9:2.) They were _hieroduli,_ or temple-bondsmen: the lowest order of the ministry...
THE CHILDREN OF SOLOMON’S SERVANTS. — These are mentioned in 1 Kings 9 as a servile class, formed of the residue of the Canaanites. They were probably inferior to the Nethinims, but are generally clas...
בְּנֵ֖י עַבְדֵ֣י שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה בְּנֵי ־סֹטַ֥י בְּנֵי...
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...
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...
The children of Solomon's (i) servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda, (i) Which came of them that Solomon had appointed for the work of the temple....
_Servants, proselytes, 1 Paralipomenon xxii. 2. (Menochius)_...
I include the whole of these in one list, for Levites, Nethinims, and the Singers, with the children of Solomon's servants, may be summed up as bearing offices in one and the same household, though in...
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...
Ezra 2:3....
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda, Ver. 55. The children of Solomon's servants] These also were strangers, that had been emp...
_The children of Solomon's servants_ Who had lived in Solomon's family, and after his death called themselves and their families by that name, esteeming it a great honour that they had been servants t...
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...
THE PRIESTS, LEVITES, AND SERVANTS OF THE TEMPLE...
The children of Solomon's servants, usually connected with the Nethinim, apparently descendants of prisoners of war that were not Canaanites: THE CHILDREN OF SOTAI, THE CHILDREN OF SOPHERETH, THE CHIL...
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...
PERUDA: Or, Perida, in Nehem....
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...
THE CHILDREN OF SOLOMON'S SERVANTS; either of those strangers and proselytes whom Solomon used in the building of the temple, 1 KINGS 9:21, to the service of which, as some add, he devoted them, as th...
Ezra 2:55 sons H1121 Solomons H8010 servants H5650 sons H1121 Sotai H5479 sons H1121 Sophereth H5618 sons H1121 Peruda...
THE ENROLLING OF THE SONS OF SOLOMON'S SERVANTS (EZRA 2:55). The fact that the total of these was combined with the total of the Nethinim (Ezra 2:58) suggests that they had similar duties. We have no...
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...
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...
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...
_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....
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...
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
EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 2:55 The SONS OF SOLOMON’S SERVANTS may be connected with foreigners whom Solomon drafted for building the temple (1 Kings 9:20). They are not regarded a
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...
EXPOSITION THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM CAPTIVITY WITH ZERUBBABEL, AND THE NAMES OF THE CHIEFS (Ezra 2:1). It has
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...
1 Kings 9:21; Nehemiah 7:57...