Ezra 1:2-3
Lord God <0430 03068> [Lord God.]
given <05414> [hath given.]
kingdoms <04467> [all the kingdoms.]
According to the testimony of ancient writers, Cyrus, at this time, reigned over the Medes, Persians, Hyrcanians, Syrians, Assyrians, Indians, etc., and all lesser Asia.
instructed <06485> [he hath charged.]
God ...................... God ....... God <0430> [his God.]
God ...................... God ....... God <0430> [he is the God.]
Ezra 1:5
mind <07307> [whose spirit.]
Ezra 3:9
Jeshua <03442> [Jeshua.]
Not Jeshua the high-priest, before mentioned, but another Jeshua, a Levite, mentioned in the parallel passage.
Yehudah <03063> [Judah]
Hodaviah, [H“wdavyƒh <\\See definition 01938\\>,] is called Hodevah, [H“wdevƒh <\\See definition 01937\\>,] by the elision of [Y“wd,] {yood,} and was probably named Judah, from the word having the same signification.
[Hodaviah.]
[Hodevah.]
<0259> [together. Heb. as one.]
Ezra 9:9
slaves <05650> [we were bondmen.]
God ................................... God <0430> [yet our God.]
in the sight of <06440> [in the sight.]
restore <07311> [to set up.]
raise up <05975> [repair. Heb. set up. a wall.]
Or rather, a hedge or fence, {gader,} such as were made for sheep-folds.
Ezra 10:9
ninth month ........ month <02320 08671> [the ninth month.]
That is, some time in December, which is the coldest and most rainy time of the year in Palestine. Dr. Russel, in his account of the weather at Aleppo, which very much resembles that in Judea, says, that the natives reckon the severity of the winter, which they call {marbania,} to last but forty days, beginning from the 12th of December, and ending the 20th of January, and that this computation comes in fact very near the truth: and that the air during this time is excessively piercing, even to those that are just come from a cold climate.
trembling <07460> [trembling.]
rains <01653> [great rain. Heb. showers.]
