Ezra 8:18-23

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezra 8:1-20

Ezra, having received his commission from the king, beats up for volunteers, as it were, sets up an ensign to assemble the outcasts of Israel and the dispersed of Judah, Isa. 11:12. ?Whoever of the sons of Sion, that swell with the daughters of Babylon, is disposed to go to Jerusalem, now that the temple there is finished and the temple-service set a-going, now is their time.? Now one would think that under such a leader, with such encouragements, all the Jews should at length have shaken... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezra 8:21-23

Ezra has procured Levites to go along with him; but what will that avail, unless he have God with him? That is therefore his chief care. In all our ways we must acknowledge God, and in those particularly wherein we are endeavouring to serve the interest of his kingdom among men. Ezra does so here. Observe, I. The stedfast confidence he had in God and in his gracious protection. He told the king (Ezra 8:22) what principles he went upon, that those who seek God are safe under the shadow of his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 8:18

And by the good hand of our God upon us ,.... Favouring their designs and orders, protecting those that were sent, and inclining those they were sent to use their interest and authority with those that were under them, and making them willing also to agree to what was proposed to them: they brought us a man of understanding of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel ; an Israelite, of the tribe of Levi, in the line of Mahli a son of Merari, the third son of Levi: and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 8:19

And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari ,.... These were of the same division of Levites as Sherebiah: his brethren and their sons, twenty ; these thirty eight, with those they came with, were all Levites; the Nethinims follow. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 8:20

Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites ,.... To wait upon them, and minister to them, as they did to the priests; some think those were the same with the Gibeonites, whom Joshua gave to the service of the sanctuary, and David confirmed; but others are of opinion these were different from them, and an addition to them: two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name ; in the history that Iddo sent of them to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 8:21

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava ,.... After the messengers to Iddo were returned with those they brought with them: that we might afflict ourselves before our God ; humble themselves before him for their sins, confess them, and declare their repentance of them, and ask forgiveness for them: to seek of him a right way for us ; to take from thence towards Jerusalem, to be directed by him in it: either by a prophet, or by a vision in a dream, as Eben Ezra; or rather... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 8:22

For I was ashamed to require of the kings band of soldiers and horsemen ,.... Which he might have had, only asking for them; so great was the interest he had in the king's favour: to help us against the enemy in the way ; the Arabs, Samaritans, and others, that might lie in wait for them, to rob them of their substance: because we had spoken unto the king : of the special favour of God to them, his singular providence in the protection of them: saying, the hand of our God is upon... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 8:23

So we fasted, and besought our God for this ,.... Sought the Lord by fasting and prayer for a good journey, and preservation in it: and he was entreated of us ; accepted their prayer, as Jarchi, so that they came safe to Jerusalem. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezra 8:22

I was ashamed to require - a band - He had represented God, the object of his worship, as supremely powerful, and as having the strongest affection for his true followers: he could not, therefore, consistently with his declarations, ask a band of soldiers from the king to protect them on the way, when they were going expressly to rebuild the temple of Jehovah, and restore his worship. He therefore found it necessary to seek the Lord by fasting and prayer, that they might have... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezra 8:1-20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezra 8:21-23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 8:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 8:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 8:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 8:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 8:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 8:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezra 8:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezra 8:1-20

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