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Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, were probably cities,
or villages, of Babylonia, at which the Jews here spoken of had been
settled. The first and third have been reasonably identified...
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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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OF ISRAEL. See note on Ezra 2:2, and compare 1 Kings 12:17....
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Israelites and Priests of uncertain genealogy
59. _Tel-melah, Tel-harsa_ R.V., TEL-MELAH, TEL-HARSHA i.e. Salthill
and Forest-hill, probably names of localities in Babylonia.
_Cherub, Addan_, and _I...
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TEXT, EZRA 2:59-63
59
Now these are those who came up from Tel-melah, Telharsha, Cherub,
Addan, and Immer, but they were not able to give evidence of their
fathers-' households, and their descendant...
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_AND THESE WERE THEY WHICH WENT UP FROM TELMELAH, TELHARSA, CHERUB,
ADDAN, AND IMMER: BUT THEY COULD NOT SHEW THEIR FATHER'S HOUSE, AND
THEIR SEED, WHETHER THEY WERE OF ISRAEL:_
These were they which...
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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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TEL-MELAH, etc] localities in Babylonia....
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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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(59-63) Finally, those who had lost the records of their lineage are
mentioned. Of the people, the children of three families from
Tel-melah, _Hill of salt,_ Tel-harsa, _Hill of the wood,_ and a few
o...
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וְ אֵ֗לֶּה הָֽ עֹלִים֙ מִ תֵּ֥ל
מֶ֨לַח֙ תֵּ֣ל
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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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Thelmela, "the height of Mela, or of salt." The river Melas empties
itself into the Euphrates. (Strabo xii.) --- The cities here mentioned
were in Chaldea. Some of the ten tribes had probably been tra...
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This inability to prove their stock of Israel is mentioned as a
reproach. But yet we find that they were of those whose hearts the
Lord had inclined to go to Jerusalem; were they not types also of
tho...
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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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AND THESE WERE THEY THAT WENT UP FROM TELMELAH, TELHARSA,.... Places
in the land of Babylon, see Isaiah 37:12.
CHERUB, ADDAN, AND IMMER; BUT THEY COULD NOT SHOW THEIR FATHER'S
HOUSE, AND THEIR SEED,...
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And these [were] they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub,
Addan, [and] Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and
their seed, whether they [were] of Israel:
Ver. 59. _And the...
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_Which went up from Tel-melah_, &c. These were names of some cities in
the Babylonish empire, from whence many went along with the Jews to
Judea. They were of the Jewish religion, and probably were th...
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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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And these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub,
Addan, and Immer, probably all cities in a province of Babylonia; BUT
THEY COULD NOT SHOW THEIR FATHER'S HOUSE, their genealogical...
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THE PEOPLE AND THE PRIESTS WITHOUT GENEALOGY...
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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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SEED:
Or, pedegree...
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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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TEL-MELA, TEL-HARSA; the names of the places whence they came, and
where they had lived in the time of their captivity. CHERUB, ADDAN,
AND IMMER; the names either of the heads of the families living i...
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THE ENROLLING OF THE NON-PRIESTS WHO COULD NOT PROVE THEIR DESCENT
FROM ISRAEL (EZRA 2:59).
These appear to have been settled in the Babylonian cities described
although the names of the cities mentio...
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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 2:59 WHETHER THEY BELONGED TO ISRAEL. People were
coming back after a long exile to claim inheritance and property, so
credentials needed to be established. EXCLUDED FROM THE PRIESTH...
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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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Nehemiah 7:61...