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CHAPTER 8
_ 1. Those who returned with Ezra (Ezra 8:1)_
2. The gathering at Ahava (Ezra 8:15)
3. The fast proclaimed (Ezra 8:21)
4. The appointment of guardians ...
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A LIST OF HEADS OF FAMILIES. It contains the names of the heads of the
families who returned to Palestine with Ezra....
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OF. Some codices, with one early printed edition and Septuagint, read
"And of"....
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The register of the laity or "the men of the people of Israel" as in
Ezra 2:2.
The names of these houses with the exception of Shechaniah (Ezra 8:5)
and Shelomith (Ezra 8:10) appear also in chap. 2 a...
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TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT
B. Lists are given of returnees, and treasures which they carried
back; the treasures are delivered.
1. The list of returnees is given.
TEXT, Ezra 8:1-14
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Now thes...
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_OF THE SONS OF PHINEHAS; GERSHOM: OF THE SONS OF ITHAMAR; DANIEL: OF
THE SONS OF DAVID; HATTUSH._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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PARTICULARS OF EZRA'S COMPANY
1. Them that went up] The sum of the numbers given is 1,496. Only
males are mentioned, and if no women accompanied them, the absence of
such doubtless increased the tend...
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THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM
EZRA
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 8
V1 This is the list of the families and the chief men in the families.
They came with me from Babylonia during the rule of King Artaxerx...
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UNITED PRAYER FOR GUIDANCE
Ezra 8:1
The number of men who accompanied Ezra amounted to 1754, but the women
and children would bring up the gross total to about 7000. The lack of
Levites was very seri...
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In this chapter we have, first, a representative list of those who
joined Ezra when he went up to Jerusalem. First in order, members of
the priestly and royal houses are named (verses Ezr 8:1-2). Then...
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The whole number is fourteen hundred ninety and six, beside the heads
of the houses themselves. A goodly company! How sweet is the gospel
proclamation, when made successful to win souls unto Christ. W...
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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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Ezra 7:3....
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Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two
hundred and eighteen males.
Ver. 9. _Obadiah the son of Jehiel_] This Obadiah (as also Zechariah,
Ezra 8:11, and Azgad, Ezr 8:12) seal...
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1 The companions of Ezra, who returned from Babylon.
15 He sendeth to Iddo for ministers for the Temple.
21 He keepeth a fast.
24 He committeth the treasures to the custodie of the Priests.
31 Fro...
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of the sons of Joab, treated separately here, probably because only a
small number of them had returned with Zerubbabel, Ezra 2:6: OBADIAH,
THE SON OF JEHIEL, AND WITH HIM TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN MAL...
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THE ASSEMBLING OF THE COMPANY...
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A LIST OF EZRA'S COMPANIONS
(vv. 1-14)
Those who voluntarily came to accompany Ezra to Jerusalem are recorded
here, the men numbering almost 1500. Women also must have been
present, but are not ment...
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1-20 Ezra assembles the outcasts of Israel, and the dispersed of
Judah. God raised up the spirits of a small remnant to accompany him.
What a pity that good men should omit a good work, for want of be...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Ezra 8:9 sons H1121 Joab H3097 Obadiah H5662 son H1121 Jehiel H3171
hundred H3967 eighteen H8083 H6240 males...
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CONTENTS: List of Ezra's companions and his visit to Jerusalem.
Treasure placed in the temple.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezra, Sherebeah, Hashabiah, Meremoth, Eleazar,
Jozabad, Noadiah.
CONCLUSION: God's serv...
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Ezra 8:15. _The river that runneth to Ahava,_ or the river of Diavam.
Adiabena is a remote region, according to Boiste, in Assyria, and
contiguous to Parthia: but whether the city and river of Ahava w...
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_And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava._
THE ASSEMBLY AT AHAVA
I. The long journey commenced.
II. An important inspection made. This halt illustrates--
1. The need of sea...
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EZRA 8:1 Ezra Journeys to Jerusalem with a New Wave of Returnees,
Bearing Royal Gifts for the Temple. This section gives a more extended
account of Ezra’s return to Jerusalem. Readers learn of those w...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] This chapter contains—(i.) A list
of the heads of houses, with the number of adult males accompanying
each of them, who went with Ezra from Babylon to Jerusalem (Ezra...
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EXPOSITION
THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO WENT UP TO JERUSALEM WITH EZRA, AND THE NAMES
OF THE CHIEF MEN ...
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So in chapter eight it gives to us a list of those who went with Ezra,
totaling out about 754 of the males, when you add the priests that
were added to later. So they numbered the people, and they fou...
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Ezra 2:6; Nehemiah 7:11...