Ezra 2:59 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan,n and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: ”

Ezra 2:59 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, were probably cities, or villages, of Babylonia, at which the Jews here spoken of had been settled. The first and third have been reasonably identifi...
Ezra 2:59 - 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 2:59 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

of Israel. See note on Ezra 2:2 , and compare 1 Kings 12:17 .
Ezra 2:59 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
Ezra 2:59 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: These were they...
Ezra 2:59 - 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 2:59 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(59-63) Finally, those who had lost the records of their lineage are mentioned. Of the people, the children of three families from Tel-melah, Hill of salt, Tel-harsa, Hill of the wood, and a few...
Ezra 2:59 - 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 2:59 - 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 2:59 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This inability to prove their stock of Israel is mentioned as a reproach. But yet we find that they were of those whose hearts the Lord had inclined to go to Jerusalem; were they not types also of th...
Ezra 2:59 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And these were they that went up from Telmelah, Telharsa ,.... Places in the land of Babylon, see Isaiah 37:12 . Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their father's house, and their...
Ezra 2:59 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And these [were] they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, [and] Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they [were] of Israel: Ver. 59. And t...
Ezra 2:59 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Which went up from Tel-melah , &c. These were names of some cities in the Babylonish empire, from whence many went along with the Jews to Judea. They were of the Jewish religion, and probably we...
Ezra 2:59 - 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 2:59 - 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 2:59 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Tel-mela, Tel-harsa; the names of the places whence they came, and where they had lived in the time of their captivity. Cherub, Addan, and Immer; the names either of the heads of the families liv...
Ezra 2:59 - 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 2:59 - 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 2:59 - 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 2:59 - 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 2:59 - 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 2:59 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, probably all cities in a province of Babylonia; but they could not show their father's house, their genealogic...
Ezra 2:59 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nehemiah 7:61

Ezra 2:59 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezra 2:59 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezra 2:59 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezra 2:59 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezra 2:59 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezra 2:59 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezra 2:59 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezra 2:59 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezra 2:59 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezra 2:59 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezra 2:59 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezra 2:59 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezra 2:59 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezra 2:59 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Ezra 2:59 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezra 2:59 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezra 2:59 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezra 2:59 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezra 2:59 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezra 2:59 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezra 2:59 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezra 2:59 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezra 2:59 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge