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Verse 55. _THE CHILDREN OF SOLOMON'S SERVANTS_] The _Nethinim_, and
others appointed to do the meaner services of the holy house....
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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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_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"....
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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...
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_VER._ 55. _THE CHILDREN OF SOLOMON'S SERVANTS_— i.e. Of the
Nethinims. See 1 Chronicles 9:2 and Calmet on the place....
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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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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(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...
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בְּנֵ֖י עַבְדֵ֣י שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה בְּנֵי
־סֹטַ֥י בְּנֵי...
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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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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....
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_Servants, proselytes, 1 Paralipomenon xxii. 2. (Menochius)_...
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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...
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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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Ezra 2:3....
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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...
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_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...
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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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THE PRIESTS, LEVITES, AND SERVANTS OF THE TEMPLE...
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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...
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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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PERUDA:
Or, Perida, in Nehem....
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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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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...
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Ezra 2:55 sons H1121 Solomons H8010 servants H5650 sons H1121 Sotai
H5479 sons H1121 Sophereth H5618 sons H1121 Peruda...
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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...
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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 2:36 Temple officials are divided by function,
headed by the PRIESTS and LEVITES. The priests (vv. Ezra 2:36) are
most impor
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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
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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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1 Kings 9:21; Nehemiah 7:57...
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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....