Ezra 2

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1Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;

2who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

3The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.

4The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.

5The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.

6The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.

7The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

8The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five.

9The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.

10The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.

11The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.

12The children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two.

13The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six.

14The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six.

15The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.

16The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

17The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three.

18The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve.

19The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty-three.

20The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.

21The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.

22The men of Netophah, fifty-six.

23The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.

24The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.

25The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.

26The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.

27The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.

28The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.

29The children of Nebo, fifty-two.

30The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.

31The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

32The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.

33The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.

34The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.

35The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty.

36The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.

37The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.

38The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.

39The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen.

40The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.

41The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.

42The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.

43The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

44the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

45the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,

46the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan,

47the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,

48the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,

49the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,

50the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,

51the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

52the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

53the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

54the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

55The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,

56the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

57the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Ami.

58All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.

59These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, and their offspring, whether they were of Israel:

60the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.

61Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.

62These sought their place among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

63The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

64The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,

65besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.

66Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;

67their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

68Some of the heads of fathers’ households, when they came to Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for God’s house to set it up in its place:

69they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.

70So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

Commentary

2:1 The province - Of Judah, called a province, chap.5:8. And he calls it thus emphatically to mind himself and his brethren of that sad change which their sins had made among them, that from an illustrious, independent, and formidable kingdom, were fallen to be an obscure, servile, and contemptible province, first under the Chaldeans, and now under the Persians.

2:1-35 An account was kept of the families that came up out of captivity. See how sin lowers a nation, which righteousness would exalt!

Chapter 2 That many returned out of Babylon upon Cyrus’s proclamation we were told in the foregoing chapter; we have here a catalogue of the several families that returned (v. 1). I. The leaders (v. 2). II. The people (v. 3–35). III. The priests, Levites, and retainers to the temple (v. 35–63). IV. The sum total, with an account of their retinue (v. 64–67). V. Their offerings to the service of the temple (v. 68–70).Verses 1-35 We may observe here, 1. That an account was kept in writing of the families that came up out of captivity, and the numbers of each family. This was done for their honour, as part of their recompence for their faith and courage, their confidence in God and their affection to their own land, and to stir up others to follow their good example. Those that honour God he will thus honour. The names of all those Israelites indeed that accept the offer of deliverance by Christ shall be found, to their honour, in a more sacred record than this, even in the Lamb’s book of life. The account that was kept of the families that came up from the captivity was intended also for the benefit of posterity, that they might know from whom they descended and to whom they were allied. 2. That they are called children of the province. Judah, which had been an illustrious kingdom, to which other kingdoms had been made provinces, subject to it and dependent on it, was now itself made a province, to receive laws and commissions from the king of Persia and to be accountable to him. See how sin diminishes and debases a nation, which righteousness would exalt. But by thus being made servants (as the patriarchs by being sojourners in a country which was theirs by promise) they were reminded of the better country, that is, the heavenly (Heb. 11:16), a kingdom which cannot be moved, or changed into a province. 3. That they are said to come every one to his city, that is, the city appointed them, in which appointment an eye, no doubt, was had to their former settlement by Joshua; and to that, as near as might be, they returned: for it does not appear that any others, at least any that were able to oppose them, had possessed them in their absence. 4. That the leaders are first mentioned, v. 2. Zerubbabel and Jeshua were their Moses and Aaron, the former their chief prince, the latter their chief priest. Nehemiah and Mordecai are mentioned here; some think not the same with the famous men we afterwards meet with of those names: probably they were the same, but afterwards returned to court for the service of their country. 5. Some of these several families are named from the persons that were their ancestors, others from the places in which they had formerly resided; as with us many surnames are the proper names of persons, others of places. 6. Some little difference there is between the numbers of some of the families here and in Neh. 7, where this catalogue is repeated, which might arise from this, that some who had given in their names at first to come afterwards drew back—said, I go, Sir, but went not, which would lessen the number of the families they belonged to; others that declined, at first, afterwards repented and went, and so increased the number. 7. Here are two families that are called the children of Elam (one v. 7, another v. 31), and, which is strange, the number of both is the same, 1254. 8. The children of Adonikam, which signifies a high lord, were 666, just the number of the beast (Rev. 13:18), which is there said to be the number of a man, which, Mr. Hugh Broughton thinks, has reference to this man. 9. The children of Bethlehem (v. 21) were but 123, though it was David’s city; for Bethlehem was little among the thousands of Judah, yet there must the Messiah arise, Mic. 5:2. 10. Anathoth had been a famous place in the tribe of Benjamin and yet here it numbered but 128 (v. 23), which is to be imputed to the divine curse which the men of Anathoth brought upon themselves by persecuting Jeremiah, who was of their city. Jer. 11:21, 23, There shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth. And see Isa. 10:30, O poor Anathoth! Nothing brings ruin on a people sooner than persecution.

Now these are the children of the province,.... Either of the province of Babylon, as Aben Ezra, where they were either born, or had dwelt for many years; or else rather, according to Jarchi, of the province of Judea, as it is called, Ezr 5:8 once a flourishing kingdom, but reduced to a province of the Babylonian monarchy, now in the hands of the Medes and Persians, of which province they and their fathers originally were:

that went out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon; who either in person, or in their parents, were carried captive by him, and who were the tribes of Judah and Benjamin; and they are only mentioned, because they were the principal that returned, though there were some of the other tribes that also came up with them:

and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, everyone unto his city; that he dwelt in before, or was now assigned to him by lot, see Ne 11:1, &c.

CHAPTER 2Ezr 2:1-70. Number of the People That Turned.1. children of the province—that is, Judea (Ezr 5:8), so called as being now reduced from an illustrious, independent, and powerful kingdom to an obscure, servile, tributary province of the Persian empire.

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AMHEVG የባቢሎንም ንጉሥ ናቡከደነፆር ወደ ባቢሎን ከማረካቸው ምርኮኞች ወደ ኢየሩሳሌምና ወደ ይሁዳ ወደ እየከተማቸው የተመለሱት የአገር ልጆች እነዚህ ናቸው። አማርኛ ENGNIV Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Baby… English BCV ናቡከድነፆር ንጉስ ባቢሎን ናብ ባቢሎን ማሪኽዎም ካብ ዝነበሩሞ፥ ካብ ምርኮ ደይቦም ናብ ኢየሩሳሌምን ናብ ይሁዳን፥ ነፍሲ ወከፍ ነናብ ከተማኣቶም ዝተመለሱ ደቂ ሃገር እዚኣቶም እዮም። ትግርኛ GAZBIB Namoonni warri Nebukadnezaar mootiin Baabilon kutaa biyya Yihudaa keessaa booji'ee biyya Baabilonitti geessee turee, am… Afaan Oromoo BCV GIZ ወእሉ እሙንቱ ደቂቀ ብሔር እለ ዐርጉ ኢየሩሳሌም ወገብኡ እምኀበ ተፄወዉ ወፈለሱ እለ አፍለሶሙ ናቡከደነጾር ንጉሠ ባቢሎን ውስተ ባቢሎን፡ ወተመይጡ ኢየሩሳሌም፣ ወሰብአ ይሁዳኒ አተዉ ውስተ … giz GAZGAZ Namoonni warri Nebukadnezaar mootiin Baabilon kutaa biyya Yihudaa keessaa booji'ee biyya Baabilonitti geessee turee, am… Afaan Oromoo BCV aksum ናቡከድነፆር ንጉስ ባቢሎን ናብ ባቢሎን ማሪኽዎም ካብ ዝነበሩሞ፥ ካብ ምርኮ ደይቦም ናብ ኢየሩሳሌምን ናብ ይሁዳን፥ ነፍሲ ወከፍ ነናብ ከተማኣቶም ዝተመለሱ ደቂ ሃገር እዚኣቶም እዮም። ትግርኛ AMHNIV የባቢሎን ንጉሥ ናቡከደነፆር ወደ ባቢሎን ማርኮ ከወሰዳቸው መካከል ከምርኮ ተመልሰው ወደየራሳቸው ከተሞች ወደ ይሁዳና ወደ ኢየሩሳሌም የመጡት የአገሩ ልጆች እነዚህ ናቸው፤ አማርኛ