Ezra 2:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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This chapter contains the record of the number which returned of the people from Babylon. Of certain priests, which could not show their pedigree.

Ezra 2:1

We are not to suppose that these were individually the very same persons which were carried away and all lived to return. Seventy years must have produced both deaths and births in the several tribes. But I rather conceive, by this register, is meant the exact number of those in each tribe that survived to return.

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Ezra 2:1

1 Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;