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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezra 2:59

Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, were probably cities, or villages, of Babylonia, at which the Jews here spoken of had been settled. The first and third have been reasonably identified with the Thelme and Chiripha of Ptolemy. Of the rest, nothing is known at present. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezra 2:63

The Tirshatha - i. e., Zerubbabel. See margin. The word is probably old Persian, though it does not occur in the cuneiform inscriptions. Some derive it from a root “to fear.” See the introduction to the Book of Ezra, first note.A priest with Urim and with Thummim - See Exodus 28:30 note. According to the rabbinical writers, the second temple permanently lacked this glory of the first. Zerubbabel, it would seem by the present passage (compare Nehemiah 7:65), expected that the loss would be only... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezra 2:64

The sum total is given without any variation by Ezra, by Nehemiah (see the marginal reference), and by Esdras (1 Esdras 5:41), who adds, that in this reckoning only those of twelve years of age and upward were counted.It is curious that the total 42,360, is so greatly in excess of the items. Ezra’s items make the number 29,818; Nehemiah’s 31,089, Esdras, 33,950. The original document was probably illegible in places, and the writers were forced to make omissions. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:1

Ezra 2:1. The children of the province That is, of Babylon, for they are here spoken of whom Nebuchadnezzar had brought captive to Babylon, and not those of the ten tribes, who had been dispersed before, by the kings of Assyria, into various provinces; and who afterward returned to Jerusalem in separate companies. Zerubbabel was in the province of Babylon, and to him those captives joined themselves who lived nearest in the same province. This is the reason why those of the tribes of Judah... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:2

Ezra 2:2 . Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, &c. These were their heads, who undertook to conduct them: among whom Zerubbabel was their prince or leader, as Jeshua was high-priest, who is mentioned next to him. Nehemiah, whose name follows, is not the person whose book comes after this: for he did not go to Judea now, but afterward; or, if he did, he returned to Babylon again. The number of the men of the people This is a kind of title to the following verses. This... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:3

Ezra 2:3. The children The posterity, as that word is generally taken in this catalogue. Of Parosh That descended either from Parosh, or from that family whereof Parosh was the chief. And so for the rest. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:5

Ezra 2:5. Seven hundred, &c. In Nehemiah 7:10, they were only six hundred and fifty-two; it seems seven hundred and seventy-five marched out of Babylon, but some of them died, others were hindered by sickness or other casualties, and so there came only six hundred and fifty-two to Jerusalem. And the like is to be said in the like differences; which it suffices to hint once for all. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:20-21

Ezra 2:20-21. The children of Gibbar Or , as it is in Nehemiah 7:25, of Gibeon, these being the citizens of that city. For this is not the name of a man, but of a place; and the same may be said of several names that follow. The children of Beth-lehem The remainders of the inhabitants of that city: so little was Beth-lehem among the thousands of Judah! Yet thence must the Messiah arise. Netophah and Anathoth also, in the next two verses, were towns, not men. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:36

Ezra 2:36. The priests Having numbered the people that went of Judah and Benjamin, he proceeds now to the tribe of Levi, and first mentions the priests. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:39

Ezra 2:39. The children of Harim The head of one of the twenty-four courses which David appointed, (1 Chronicles 24:8,) of all which courses, some observe here, are not above four or five that returned. There is another Harim mentioned above, Ezra 2:32, but that was no priest as this was, Ezra 2:36. read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezra 2:59

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezra 2:63

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezra 2:64

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:20-21

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:36

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 2:39

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