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 those concerning whom we read in the last call of the Jews, who shall take hold of the skirts of a true Israelite, saying, we will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you. Zechariah 8:23.
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Ezra 2:59-60
59 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:
60 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.