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Ezra 4:1

Ezra 4:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

the adversaries: These were the Samaritans, the descendants of the various nations with which the kings of Assyria had peopled Israel, when they had carried the original inhabitants captive. Ezra 7:9; 1 Kings 5:4-5; 1 Chronicles 22:9-10; Nehemiah 4:1-11; Daniel 9:25; 1 Corinthians 16:9

children of the captivity: Heb. sons of the transportation, Ezra 1:11 *marg. Ezra 6:16, Ezra 6:19-20, Ezra 10:7, Ezra 10:16; Daniel 5:13

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