Ezra 2:55 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,l ”

Ezra 2:55 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The children of Solomon's (i) servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda, (i) Which came of them that Solomon had appointed for the work of the temple.
Ezra 2:55 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ezra 2:55 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda, The children of Solomon's servants - The Nethinim, and others appointed to do the meaner...
Ezra 2:55 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 55. The children of Solomon's servants — i.e. Of the Nethinims. See 1 Chronicles 9:2 and Calmet on the place.
Ezra 2:55 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda, The children of Solomon's servants - the strangers, Canaanites, or original inhab...
Ezra 2:55 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ezra 2:55 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(43-58) The Nethinims. — By the etymology those given: known by this name only in the later books. (See 1 Chronicles 9:2 .) They were hieroduli, or temple-bondsmen: the lowest order of the min...
Ezra 2:55 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Ezra 2:55 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Ezra 2:55 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I include the whole of these in one list, for Levites, Nethinims, and the Singers, with the children of Solomon's servants, may be summed up as bearing offices in one and the same household, though i...
Ezra 2:55 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezra 2:3 .
Ezra 2:55 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda, Ver. 55. The children of Solomon's servants] These also were strangers, that had been e...
Ezra 2:55 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The children of Solomon's servants Who had lived in Solomon's family, and after his death called themselves and their families by that name, esteeming it a great honour that they had been servants...
Ezra 2:55 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ezra 2:55 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three. 37 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two. 38 The children of Pashur, a thousand...
Ezra 2:55 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The children of Solomon's servants; either of those strangers and proselytes whom Solomon used in the building of the temple, 1 Kings 9:21 , to the service of which, as some add, he devoted them...
Ezra 2:55 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ezra 2:55 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 2:55 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Ezra 2:55 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Ezra 2:55 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Ezra 2:55 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Priests, Levites, and Servants of the Temple
Ezra 2:55 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 9:21 ; Nehemiah 7:57
Ezra 2:55 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Servants — Who had lived in Solomon's family, and after his death, called themselves and their families by that name, esteeming it a great honour that they had been servants to so great a prince.

Ezra 2:55 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezra 2:55 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezra 2:55 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezra 2:55 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezra 2:55 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezra 2:55 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezra 2:55 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezra 2:55 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezra 2:55 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezra 2:55 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezra 2:55 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezra 2:55 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezra 2:55 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezra 2:55 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Ezra 2:55 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezra 2:55 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezra 2:55 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezra 2:55 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezra 2:55 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezra 2:55 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezra 2:55 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezra 2:55 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezra 2:55 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezra 2:55 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes