Introduction
LIST OF THE EXILES WHO RETURNED WITH ZERUBBABEL, Ezra 2:1-70.
Of this catalogue we have a duplicate in Nehemiah 7:6-73, and both lists were probably taken from the same source a register of those families and classes who first returned from exile, made at the time of their return, and long preserved as a most interesting document. To any Jew, whose ancestors were among the families named in this catalogue, the document would be of incalculable value. “Their land and their cities,” says Patrick, “had been laid so desolate, and had been so long neglected, and were infested also by such bad neighbours, that it was a great piece of generosity in these men to return thither; and their names are recorded, to the eternal honour of them and of their posterity, they being the first planters of this country after it had been laid waste.”
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