And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord that is at Jerusalem,....
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Ezra 2:68
Ezra 2:68
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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told in the foregoing chapter; we have here a catalogue of the several
families that returned, ver. 1. I. The leaders, ver. 2. II. The people,…Ezra 2 — OverviewEzra 2 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeEzra 2:1, The number that return of the people; Ezra 2:36, of the priests; Ezra 2:40, of the Levites; Ezra 2:43, of the Nethinims; Ezra 2:55, of Solomon’s servants; Ezra 2:61, of the priests who could not shew their…Ezra 2 — OverviewEzra 2 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter contains a list of those that went up from Babylon to Jerusalem, of their leaders, their chief men, princes and priests, Ezr 2:1 of the people, described by their families, towns, and cities, and number of…Ezra 2:1-70Ezra 2:1-70 · The Pulpit CommentaryMen forsaking the worldly life.
We regard the people returning from Babylon as typical of men going out of the worldly life into the life and work of the kingdom of God. Observe—
I. THAT MEN FORSAKE THE WORLDLY LIFE…Ezra 2:64-70Ezra 2:64-70 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere is, I. The sum total of the company that returned out of Babylon.
The particular sums before mentioned amount not quite to 30,000
(29,818), so that there were above 12,000 that come out into any of
those…Ezra 2:68Ezra 2:68 · The Pulpit CommentarySome of the chief of the fathers. That is, "Some of the heads of families." Each family went up under a recognized head or chief, the number of such heads being, as it would seem, nearly a hundred (Ezra 2:3-61). When…