Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Ezra 2:25
Kirjath-arim. Now Khan 'Er'ma. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "Kirjath-jearim".
Kirjath-arim. Now Khan 'Er'ma. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "Kirjath-jearim".
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....
Names of towns and places. It is possible that the register dealt first with the dwellers in Jerusalem. The inhabitants of the towns and places nearest to Jerusalem and best known are mentioned next:...
_Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth_ Gibeonite cities, see Josh, Joshua 9:17 -Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim" (R.V.) -Kirjath-arim" ( KIRIATH-ARIM R.V.)...
3. Next it includes people identified mainly by their towns. TEXT, EZRA 2:21-35 21 the men of Bethlehem, 123; 22 the men of Netophah, 56; 23 the men of Anathoth, 128; 24 the sons of Azmaveth,...
_THE CHILDREN OF KIRJATH-ARIM, CHEPHIRAH, AND BEEROTH, SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY AND THREE._ The children of Kirjath-arim. The name occurs in this form here only; in Nehemiah 7:29 it is mentioned by th...
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...
בְּנֵ֨י קִרְיַ֤ת עָרִים֙ כְּפִירָ֣ה וּ בְאֵרֹ֔ות שְׁבַ֥ע...
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...
No doubt during the captivity a faithful register was kept of the several families, and therefore their number was the more clearly ascertained. Chiefly with an eye to the promised Messiah, each fathe...
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....
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 HOUSEHOLD OF THE PEOPLE...
The children of Kirjath-arim, west of Jerusalem, CHEPHIRAH, AND BEEROTH, three cities of the Gibeonites, Joshua 9:17, SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY AND THREE....
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...
1-35 An account was kept of the families that came up out of captivity. See how sin lowers a nation, which righteousness would exalt!...
_ Kirath-arim_, or _Kirjath-jearim_, as it is NEHEMIAH 7:29....
Ezra 2:25 people H1121 Arim H7157 Chephirah H3716 Beeroth H881 seven H7651 hundred H3967 forty-three H705 H7969 Kirjat
ENROLLED BY DOMICILE. We now come to those families who submitted their numbers in terms of domicile. This may simply have been as a consequence of the choice of the particular submitter, or it may ha...
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 2:2 The laity is described partly by kinship (vv. Ezra 2:2) and partly by place (vv. Ezra 2:20), without a real distincti
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...
Joshua 9:17; Nehemiah 7:29...