Ezra 2:3.
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 Solomo...
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 o...
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda, The children of Solomon's servants - Th...
Ver. 55. The children of Solomon's servants — i.e. Of the Nethinims. See 1 Chronicles 9:2 and Calmet on the place.
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda, The children of Solomon's serva...
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 5...
The children of Solomon's servants ] probably descendants of the native Canaanites employed by Solomon on his buildings: see 1 Kings 9:21 .
(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...
The children of Solomon’s servants. — These are mentioned in 1 Kings 9 as a servile class, formed of the residue of the Canaanites. They were pro...
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 fr...
Chapter two contains the register of those who, taking advantage f Cyrus's decree, turned their faces toward Jerusalem. The list proceeds in a defini...
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 beari...
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 se...
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, esteem...
LIST OF RETURNED CAPTIVES (vv. 1-58) This chapter shows the definite interest God had in every individual who returned from the captivity, so th...
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...
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...
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...
The Enrolling Of The Sons Of Solomon's Servants ( Ezra 2:55-58 ). The fact that the total of these was combined with the total of the Nethinim ( E...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] In this chapter we have the list of those who returned from captivity with Zerubbabel, and their contributions for...
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 ch...
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...
EXPOSITION THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM CAPTIVITY WITH ZERUBBABEL , AND THE NAMES OF THE CHIEFS ( Ezra 2...
The Priests, Levites, and Servants of the Temple
The children of Solomon's servants, usually connected with the Nethinim, apparently descendants of prisoners of war that were not Canaanites: the ch...
1 Kings 9:21 ; Nehemiah 7:57
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 t...
55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,l