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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 (Ezra 2:40)
5. The porters and Nethinim (Ezra 2:42)
6...
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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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The Levites are here arranged in the same way as in the 1st Book of
Chronicles, i.e. into (1) Levites proper (cf. 1 Chronicles 24:20-31).
(2) Singers (cf. 1 Chronicles 25). (3) Doorkeepers (cf. 1 Chro...
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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 SINGERS: THE CHILDREN OF ASAPH, AN HUNDRED TWENTY AND EIGHT._
The singers: the children of Asaph. He was a leader in the temple
choir (1 Chronicles 6:39), and this office seems to have continued...
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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...
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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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הַֽ מְשֹׁרְרִ֑ים בְּנֵ֣י אָסָ֔ף
מֵאָ֖ה עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּ שְׁמֹנָֽה׃ פ...
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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 suffer...
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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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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 2:40....
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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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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 tot...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Ezra 2:41 singers H7891 (H8789) sons H1121 Asaph H623 hundred H3967
twenty-eight H6242 H8083
Asaph - 1 Chronicles 6:39, 1 Chronicles 15:17, 1 Chronicles 25:1-2;
Nehemiah 7:44, N
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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' edi...
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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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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 been argued that the whole
of this chapter is out of place here, and has been...
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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 Chronicles 15:17; 1 Chronicles 25:1; 1 Chronicles 25:2; 1 Chronicles
6:39; Nehemiah 11:17; Nehemiah 7:44...