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Verse 21. _AND ALL SUCH AS HAD SEPARATED THEMSELVES_] These were the
_proselytes_ who had embraced the Jewish religion by having mingled
with the Jews in their captivity. This proves that there the po...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The search of the king and the result (Ezra 6:1)_
2. The command of Darius (Ezra 6:6)
3. The king's command obeyed (Ezra 6:13)
4. The house finished ...
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THE CELEBRATION OF THE PASSOVER. Hebrew is resumed here.
Ezra 6:19. the fourteenth day of the first month: _cf._ Exodus 12:6.
The leading part taken by the Levites here is not in accordance with
earli...
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HEATHEN. nations.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
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Those who partook of the Passover are described as belonging to two
classes; (1) those who had returned from captivity, (2) those who had
-separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the hea...
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4. The Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread observed
TEXT, Ezra 6:19-22
19
And the exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth of the first
month.
20
For the priests and the Levites had puri...
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_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHICH WERE COME AGAIN OUT OF CAPTIVITY,
AND ALL SUCH AS HAD SEPARATED THEMSELVES UNTO THEM FROM THE FILTHINESS
OF THE HEATHEN OF THE LAND, TO SEEK THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL,...
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COMPLETION AND DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE
This chapter relates the authorisation of the construction of the
Temple, and the completion of the work....
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ALL SUCH AS HAD SEPARATED, etc.] cp. Ezra 10:11; Nehemiah 10:28. The
allusion is to the Israelites left in the country when the flower of
the population was removed by Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon, who h...
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THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM
EZRA
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 6
V1 Then King Darius gave a command. So people searched in the
records. Those records were in the house of the records in the city
calle...
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SEPARATED THEMSELVES ... — Not proselytes from the heathen are
intended, but the remnant of the Jews in the land who had consorted
with the foreign populations introduced by the conquerors. Their
inte...
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(16-22) The dedication of the second Temple....
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וַ יֹּאכְל֣וּ בְנֵֽי ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל הַ
שָּׁבִים֙...
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THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE
Ezra 6:6
THE chronicler's version of the edict in which Darius replies to the
application of the Satrap Tattenai is so very friendly to the Jews
that questions have been...
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PROSPERED IN A DIFFICULT WORK
Ezra 6:1
How much depended on the finding of that roll! But God knew where it
was, and led them to discover it, and inclined Darius to ratify it.
When we are anxious and...
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There can be no doubt that Tattenai felt that finding such a decree
was unlikely, if not impossible. That the search must have been
thorough is indicated by the place where the roll was found. The
sea...
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_To them, becoming proselytes, and receiving circumcision, Exodus xii.
48._...
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How beautiful and truly interesting is it, to discover, more or less,
through the Bible, from the first forming of the church on our fathers
coming out of Egypt, even to the days of the Lord Jesus, ho...
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All this shews us that, in ceasing to build the temple, Israel was in
fault. It appears from Haggai (Ezra 2:15) that they had made no
progress at all. The terror with which the adversaries had inspire...
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AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHICH WERE COME AGAIN OUT OF
CAPTIVITY,.... The tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with some of the ten
tribes mixed with them:
AND ALL SUCH AS HAD SEPARATED THEMSELVES UNTO TH...
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And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity,
and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness
of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, d...
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_All such as had separated themselves unto them_, &c. Had left their
country, and the superstitions and vices of it; had become proselytes
to the Jewish religion, and cast in their lot with the Israel...
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1 Darius finding the decree of Cyrus, maketh a new decree for the
aduancement of the building.
13 By the helpe of the enemies, and the directions of the prophets,
the Temple is finished.
16 The feas...
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And the children of Israel which were come again out of captivity and
all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of
the heathen of the land, not only by renouncing idolatry, bu...
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THE SECOND TEMPLE DEDICATED...
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Having received the letter from Tattenai, Darius ordered that a search
be made in the archives where the treasures were stored in
Babylon.There is no doubt that God led the searchers to Achmetha in
th...
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13-22 The gospel church, that spiritual temple, is long in the
building, but it will be finished at last, when the mystical body is
completed. Every believer is a living temple, building up himself i...
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FROM THE FILTHINESS OF THE HEATHEN, i.e. such as had forsaken that
filthy and idolatrous religion of the heathens, and were proselyted to
the Jewish religion; for such were allowed to eat the passover...
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Ezra 6:21 children H1121 Israel H3478 returned H7725 (H8802) captivity
H1473 ate H398 (H8799) separated H914 ...
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THE WRITER NOW COMMENCES AGAIN IN HEBREW.
The writer now changes back from using Aramaic to using Hebrew. This
is in order that the whole passage from Ezra 4:1 to Ezra 6:22,
although written mainly in...
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CONTENTS: Darius confirms the decree of Cyrus. Temple furnished and
worship restored.
CHARACTERS: God, Darius, Haggai, Zechariah, Tattenai, Shethar-bozenai,
Cyrus.
CONCLUSION: When God's time has co...
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Ezra 6:2. _There was found at Achmetha,_ that is, _Ecbatana,_ the
capital of Media, as in the Vulgate, the city where the archives were
kept; _a roll_ of the parchment. Revelation 7:1. “(?)” [Revelati...
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_To seek the Lord God of Israel _
SEEKING GOD
Birds are very fond of catching the last evening rays of a winter’s
sun, and are often to be found in the afternoon on banks facing the
west, or swingin...
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_And they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai._
THE TRUE PULPIT THE BEST PROMOTER OF HONEST INDUSTRY
It--
I. quickens the power of thought. He quickens public thought most who
presents the m...
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EZRA 6:1 King Darius Discovers and Reaffirms Cyrus’s Decree, and the
Work Is Completed. A record of Cyrus’s decree is discovered, and
King Darius confirms that the Jews are to be allowed to continue t...
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EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 6:19 The text returns from Aramaic to Hebrew in v.
Ezra 6:19 (see note on 4:7–8). The PASSOVER is...
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EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 6:21 Remarkably, the returning Jews are joined by
EVERY ONE WHO HAD... SEPARATED HIMSELF FROM THE UNCLEANNESS OF THE
PEOPLES OF THE LAND TO WORSHIP THE LORD. The community was based...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] This chapter contains—(i.) The
search for and discovery of the decree of Cyrus (Ezra 6:1). (ii.) The
decree of Darius for the furtherance of the building of the Temple...
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EXPOSITION
Ezra 6:13
SO THEY DID SPEEDILY. Tatnai and Shethar-boznai showed no reluctance.
They had no enmity against the Jews. Once clearly advertised of the
king's wishes, they carried them out wi...
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So Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of
the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. And there was
found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of...
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2 Corinthians 6:17; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Exodus 12:47; Ezekiel 36:25;...
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Children of Israel — Probably some out of each of the twelve tribes....