“ The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three. ”
(f) The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three. (f) That is inhabitants, for so this word (some) signifies when it is joined with the names of places.
A List of the Exiles who Returned under Zerubbabel. See the Greek Ezra (1 Esdras) Esther 5:7-45 and Nehemiah 7:6-73 a , where this list also occurs, though with some variations. Ezra 2:1-2...
The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three. The children of Beth-lehem - The inhabitants: see before.
The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three. The children of Beth-lehem - [Septuagint, Beethlaem].
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 pro...
THE SECOND EXODUS Ezra 2:1-67 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 bee...
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 na...
No doubt during the captivity a faithful register was kept of the several families, and therefore their number was the more clearly ascertained. Chiefly with an eye to the promised Messiah, each fath...
Ezra 2:3 .
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 na...
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...
The Return of the Captives. B. C. 536. 1 Now these are the children of the province th...
Either of a man called Beth-lehem, or the Beth-lehemite , by way of eminency; or of the place so called. And so these were the remainders of the inhabitants of that city. And the like may be said...
A List Of Those Who Returned From Babylon To Jerusalem In The Initial Stages ( Ezra 2:1-70 ). In this chapter we are provided with a list of those who returned from Babylon, taking advantage of Cy...
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 arrang...
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 Ba...
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 return...
EXPOSITION THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM CAPTIVITY WITH ZERUBBABEL , AND THE NAMES OF THE CHIEFS ( Ezra 2:1-15 ). It has been argued that the whole of this...
The Household of the People
1 Chronicles 2:50-52
Beth — lehem — And so these were the remainders of the inhabitants of that city. (And the like may be said of the two following names, Netophah and Anathoth, or others of the like nature.) So littl...