Zerubbabel. See note on Ezra 3:2.
chief. heads.
we seek your God.. priest had been sent to these Samaritans (2 Kings 17:28-33).
we do sacrifice unto Him. Hebrew text. "although we have not been sacrificing". Some codices, and two early printed editions, with Septuagint and Syriac, add "unto Him".
Esar-haddon. The son and successor of Sennacherib (see notes on 2 Kings 19:37, and 2 Chronicles 33:11).
Assur. Assyria.