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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezra 2 - Introduction

II.

(1-70) Enumeration of the families and dedication of the substance of the company who returned.

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See also Ezra 2 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Register of the Return Chap. 2. contains the register or list of those who returned to Jerusalem, with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and their companions. The register gives the names in the following orde...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _AN ACCOUNT OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM BABYLON; THEIR NUMBER, SUBSTANCE, AND OBLATIONS._ _Before Christ 536._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    Chapter Two PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS 1. Why do you suppose this list of names and numbers was regarded as important enough to be included in the Bible? 2. Does this list give you any mental image of...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 (a-0) (The title of this book, 'Ezra'), Meaning, 'Help.'...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO EZRA 2 This chapter contains a list of those that went up from Babylon to Jerusalem, of their leaders, their chief men, princes and priests, Ezra 2:1 of the people, described by their...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 3468. B.C. 536._ The leaders that returned, Ezra 2:1; Ezra 2:2. The people, Ezra 2:3. The priests, Levites, and retainers to the temple, Ezra 2:36. The sum tot

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * The numbers that returned. (1-35) The numbers of the priests and Levites. (36-63) The offerings for the temple. (64-70)...

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