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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. THE RETURN UNDER ZERUBBABEL AND THE REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE
CHAPTER 1
_ 1. The proclamation of Cyrus (Ezra 1:1)_
2. The response of the chiefs of Judah and Benjamin (E...
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PART I (Ezra 1-6). THE RETURN UNDER ZERUBBABEL TO THE COMPLETION OF
THE TEMPLE.
Ezra 1:1. The Edict of Cyrus._ Cf._ 2 Chronicles 36:22 f., where Ezra
1:1_ a_ is reproduced almost verbally. These vers...
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WHO IS THERE AMONG YOU OF ALL HIS PEOPLE?
The language implies that the Jews were scattered in various parts of
the empire. There were no less than four transportations, including
that of the people o...
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WHO IS THERE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.
BUILD. rebuild....
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_Who_is there _among you of all his people? his God_, &c. R.V.
WHOSOEVER THERE IS AMONG YOU OF ALL HIS PEOPLE, HIS GOD, &c., rightly
translating by the indefinite relative instead of by the interrogat...
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Ezra 1:1-4. The Decree of Cyrus
The history of the time throws light upon the action of Cyrus, whose
Decree gave life to the seemingly lifeless bones of Israel (Ezekiel
37) and restored the scattered...
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TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT
I. The Captives Return Under Zerubbabel (Ezra 1:1 to Ezra 2:70)
A. Authority is given by King Cyrus, and the captives who wish to
return to Israel.
1. Cyrus issues a...
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_WHO IS THERE AMONG YOU OF ALL HIS PEOPLE? HIS GOD BE WITH HIM, AND
LET HIM GO UP TO JERUSALEM, WHICH IS IN JUDAH, AND BUILD THE HOUSE OF
THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, (HE IS THE GOD,) WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM...
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THE RETURN OF THE JEWS FROM CAPTIVITY
The chapter narrates how Cyrus, king of Persia, permitted the Jews in
Babylon to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple there, and
restored the vessels taken...
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THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM
EZRA
_ROBERT BRYCE_
ABOUT THE BOOK OF EZRA
There are many dates in this *introduction. These dates are the
number of years before the time that Jesus Christ was born...
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I. THE FIRST RETURN UNDER ZERUBBABEL.
(1-4) The decree of Cyrus: marking an epoch of very great importance,
and therefore repeated almost word for word from the end of
Chronicles.
(1) THE FIRST YEAR....
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מִֽי ־בָכֶ֣ם מִ כָּל ־עַמֹּ֗ו יְהִ֤י
אֱלֹהָיו
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THE ROYAL EDICT
Ezra 1:2; Ezra 1:7
IT has been asserted that the Scripture version of the edict of Cyrus
cannot be an exact rendering of the original, because it ascribes to
the Great King some knowl...
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GOD'S PROMISES FULFILLED
Ezra 1:1
God will ever be mindful of His covenant. There were also many
remembrancers as Daniel and other like-minded exiles who gave Him no
rest and were ever asking Him for...
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The Book of Ezra contains an account of a most important epoch in the
history of the people of God. After seventy years of captivity, a
return from captivity was made possible by the decree of a Genti...
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_He is the God, is placed within a parenthesis, by the Protestants.
But the pagans might suppose that God was attached to this city, like
their idols; and the temple was not yet begun. (Haydock)_...
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I think it is probable that some of the Lord's hidden ones might have
painted out to Cyrus what the Lord's prophet Isaiah had predicted
concerning him. But that Cyrus knew nothing of the Lord in a way...
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But God now brings back a little remnant, that the true King might be
presented to them, and causes the temple to be rebuilt in its place,
according to the promises given by the mouth of Jeremiah, and...
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WHO IS THERE AMONG YOU OF ALL HIS PEOPLE?.... The people of God, the
Israelites, as well of the ten tribes, as of the two of Judah and
Benjamin; for this edict was published throughout all his dominio...
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Who [is there] among you of all his people? his God be with him, and
let him go up to Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah, and build the house
of the LORD God of Israel, (he [is] the God,) which [is] in Je...
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_Who is there among you of all his people?_ Not of the tribe of Judah
only, but of Israel also, who were under his government, the Assyrians
and Medes, among whom they were scattered, being his subjec...
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[ISRAELS RETURNE FROM BABYLON.]
1 The Proclamation of Cyrus for the building of the Temple.
5 The people prouide for the returne.
7 Cyrus restoreth the vessels of the Temple to Sheshbazzar.
1 NOW i...
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Who is there among you of all His people? His God be with him, and let
him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the
Lord God of Israel (He is the God, whom Cyrus acknowledged...
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THE PROCLAMATION OF CYRUS...
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THE CAPTIVES OF JUDAH LIBERATED
(vv. 1-11)
When the Medes and Persians defeated Babylon, Darius the Mede was
ruler, and not until Cyrus the Persian took the throne was liberty
proclaimed to Judah. T...
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1-4 The Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus. The hearts of kings are
in the hand of the Lord. God governs the world by his influence on the
spirits of men; whatever good they do, God stirs up their s...
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OF ALL HIS PEOPLE, to wit, of Israel. A material clause; by virtue of
which they justly refused the help of those aliens who pretended to
join with them in the building, EZRA 4:2,3. HIS GOD BE WITH HI...
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THE EDICT OF CYRUS AND ITS RESULT (EZRA 1:1).
In 538 BC Cyrus issued an edict allowing Jews to return to their
homeland, and authorising the rebuilding of the Temple with state
help. The wording of th...
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THE EDICT OF CYRUS (EZRA 1:1).
Ezra 1:1
‘Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of
YHWH by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, YHWH stirred up
the spirit of Cyrus king...
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CONTENTS: Decree of Cyrus for restoration of the temple and
preparations for the return of the remnant.
CHARACTERS: God, Cyrus, Sheshbazzar, Mithredath.
CONCLUSION: (Ezra 1:1) The hearts of kings ar...
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Ezra 1:1. _In the first year of Cyrus._ Darius had the title of king
of Babylon; but according to Xenophon, Cyrus had the throne, and
remained in the city. After two years Darius died, and left him th...
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_Let him go up to Jerusalem._
THE RELEASE OF THE JEWS FROM BABYLON AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE REDEMPTION
OF MAN FROM SIN
We discover an analogy in these two things as regards--
I. The subjects. The Jews...
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_Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the
Lord._
THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CAPTIVITY
The captivity is clearly represented as God’s judgment upon His
people for their sins, but...
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EZRA 1:1 Cyrus’s Decree and the Return of Exiles from Babylon. Ezra
describes monumental political changes in the world as God’s special
work for his people.
⇐...
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EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 1:3 HE IS THE GOD WHO IS IN JERUSALEM. No doubt
this is Cyrus’s real view, although he is not necessarily claiming
there is only one God (compare Darius’s statement in...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] In this chapter we have (i.) the
proclamation of Cyrus (Ezra 1:1); (ii.) the preparation of the Jews
for availing themselves of it (Ezra 1:5) and (iii.) the restoratio...
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PART 1
1. THE FIRST RETURN FROM THE CAPTIVITY
EXPOSITION
THE DECREE OF CYRUS (Ezra 1:1). The origin of the return is found in
an exertion of Divine influence on the mind of a heathen king, who was
mo
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Let's turn now to the book of Ezra.
The book of Ezra, the first part was probably written by Ezra but
written from the records. Actually at the time that Cyrus gave the
decree to build the temple, Ezr...
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1 Chronicles 28:20; Acts 10:36; Daniel 2:47; Daniel 6:26; De