Ezra 2:1

CHAPTER II

An account of those who returned from Babylon, 1-35.

The children of the priests who returned, 36-39.

Of the Levites, 40.

Of the singers, 41.

Of the porters, 42.

Of the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, 43-58.

Others who could not find out their registers, 59-62.

The number of the whole congregation, 63, 64.

Of their servants, maids, and singers, 65.

Their horses and mules, 66.

Their camels and asses, 67.

The offerings of the chief men when they came to Jerusalem,

68, 69.

The priests, Levites, singers, porters, and Nethinim, betake

themselves to their respective cities, 70.

NOTES ON CHAP. II

Verse Ezra 2:1. These are the children of the province] That is, of Judea; once a kingdom, and a flourishing nation; now a province, subdued, tributary, and ruined! Behold the goodness and severity of God! Some think Babylon is meant by the province; and that the children of the province means those Jews who were born in Babylon. But the first is most likely to be the meaning, for thus we find Judea styled, Ezra 5:8. Besides, the province is contradistinguished from Babylon even in this first verse, The children of the province-that had been carried away unto Babylon.