John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 2:68
And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord that is at Jerusalem ,.... That is, when they came to the place where it formerly stood, and where were still the ruins of it: offered freely for the house of God, to set it up in its place ; to rebuild it upon the spot where it formerly stood; this they did besides the freewill offerings they brought with them from Babylon. read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezra 2:64-70
Here is, I. The sum total of the company that returned out of Babylon. The particular sums before mentioned amount not quite to 30,000 (29,818), so that there were above 12,000 that come out into any of those accounts, who, it is probable, were of the rest of the tribes of Israel, besides Judah and Benjamin, that could not tell of what particular family or city they were, but that they were Israelites, and of what tribe. Now, 1. This was more than double the number that were carried captive... read more