Ezra 2:1-70

2:1

people <01121> [the children.]

<05019> [whom Nebuchadnezzar.]

2:2

Zerubbabel <02216> [Zerubbabel.]

[Sheshbazzar.]

[Zorobabel. Jeshua.]

[Joshua. Seraiah.]

[Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mispereth, Nehum. Rehum.]

2:3

descendants <01121> [children.]

The word children, in this table, when prefixed to the name of a man, signifies the descendants of that person, as from ver. 3-21; and when prefixed to the name of a town, place, etc., it signifies the inhabitants of that place, as from ver. 21-25.

Parosh <06551> [Parosh.]

[Pharosh.]

2:4

Shephatiah <08203> [Shephatiah.]

2:5

Arah <0733> [Arah.]

[652.]

2:6

Pahath-Moab <06355> [Pahath-moab.]

[2,818.]

Joab <03097> [Joab.]

2:7

Elam <05867> [Elam.]

2:8

Zattu <02240> [Zattu.]

[845.]

2:9

Zaccai <02140> [Zaccai.]

2:10

Bani <01137> [Bani.]

The variation of Bani, [BƒnŒy <\\See definition 01137\\>,] and Binnui, [Binn–wy <\\See definition 01131\\>,] arises from the elision of, [Vƒv,] {wav:} but the LXX., have here [Banoui,] as in the parallel place.

[Binnui. 648.]

2:11

Bebai <0893> [Bebai.]

[628.]

2:12

Azgad <05803> [Azgad.]

[2,322.]

2:13

Adonikam <0140> [Adonikam.]

[667.]

2:14

Bigvai <0902> [Bigvai.]

[2,067.]

2:15

Adin <05720> [Adin.]

[655.]

2:16

Ater <0333> [Ater.]

2:17

Bezai <01209> [Bezai.]

[324.]

2:18

Jorah <03139> [Jorah.]

[Hariph.]

2:19

Hashum <02828> [Hashum.]

[328.]

2:20

Gibbar <01402> [Gibbar.]

[Gibeon.]

2:21

Bethlehem <01035> [Beth-lehem.]

2:22

Netophah <05199> [Netophah.]

[188.]

2:23

Anathoth <06068> [Anathoth.]

2:24

Azmaveth <05820> [Azmaveth.]

[Beth-azmaveth.]

2:25

Kiriath Jearim <07157> [Kirjath-arim.]

[Kirjath-jearim.]

2:26

Ramah <07414> [Ramah.]

2:27

Micmash <04363> [Michmas.]

[Michmash.]

2:28

Ai <05857> [Ai.]

[Hai.]

[133.]

2:29

Nebo <05015> [Nebo.]

This Nebo was probably the Nabau which Eusebius and Jerome place eight miles south from Hebron.

2:30

Magbish <04019> [Magbish. i.e., congregating; crystallizing.]

<\\See definition 04019\\>. The children of Magbish are not named in our present copies of Nehemiah; but the Alexandrian MS. of the LXX. has the same reading as here.

2:31

Elam <05867> [Elam.]

2:32

Harim <02766> [Harim.]

2:33

Lod <03850> [Lod.]

Hadid <02307> [Hadid. or, Harid, as it is in some copies.]

Hadid is probably the Adida of Josephus, and the Maccabees, (1 Mac 12:38; 13:13,) a city situated on a hill in the plain country of Judah, and the Aditha of Eusebius, which he places near Diospolis, Lydda, or Lod.

2:34

Jericho <03405> [Jericho.]

2:35

Senaah <05570> [Senaah.]

[3,930.]

2:36

Jedaiah <03048> [Jedaiah.]

Jeshua <03442> [Jeshua.]

2:37

Immer <0564> [Immer.]

2:38

Pashhur <06583> [Pashur.]

2:39

Harim <02766> [Harim.]

2:40

Hodaviah <01938> [Hodaviah.]

[Judah.]

[Hodevah.]

2:41

Asaph <0623> [Asaph.]

2:42

gatekeepers <07778> [the porters.]

[138.]

2:43

temple servants <05411> [Nethinims.]

Hasupha <02817> [Hasupha.]

This variation only exists in the translation, the original being written here Husupha, and in the parallel place defectively, Hasupha.

[Hashupha.]

2:44

Siaha <05517> [Siaha.]

{Sia,} [CŒyƒ <\\See definition 05517\\>,] is merely a contraction of, [CŒyahƒ <\\See definition 05517\\>,] Siaha, by the elision of, [Hˆ,] {hay.}

[Sia.]

2:45

Lebanah <03838> [Lebanah.]

These variations merely arise from the mutation of, [Hˆ,] {hay,} into, ['Aleph,] according to the Chaldee dialect; the original, being respectively [Lebƒnƒh <\\See definition 03838\\>,] Lebanah, [\\See definition 03838\\>,] and Lebana; [Chagƒbƒ <\\See definition 02286\\>,] Hagabah, and [Chagƒbƒh <\\See definition 02286\\>,] Hagaba.

[Lebana, Hagaba.]

2:46

<08073> [Shalmai. or, Shamlai.]

Shamlai, of the Kethiv, is evidently a mistake for Shalmai, as the Keri and LXX. have.

2:49

Paseah <06454> [Paseah.]

[Phaseah.]

2:50

Meunim <04586> [Mehunim.]

[Meunim, Nephishesim.]

2:52

Bazluth <01213> [Bazluth.]

[Bazlith.]

2:53

Temah <08547> [Thamah.]

[Tamah.]

2:55

Solomon <08010> [Solomon's.]

Peruda <06514> [Peruda.]

[Perida.]

2:56

Jaala <03279> [Jaalah.]

[Jaala.]

2:57

Pokereth-Hazzebaim <06380> [Pochereth.]

Ami <0532> [Ami.]

[Amon.]

2:58

temple servants <05411> [Nethinims.]

Solomon <08010> [Solomon's.]

2:59

Tel Harsha <08521> [Tel-harsa.]

[Tel-haresha, Addon. seed. or, pedigree.]

2:60

Delaiah <01806> [of Delaiah.]

[642.]

2:61

descendants ..... descendants ...... descendants <01121> [the children.]

Barzillai ........... Barzillai <01271> [Barzillai.]

2:62

excluded <01351> [therefore.]

excluded .... priesthood <03550 01351> [were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood. Heb. they were polluted from the priesthood.]

2:63

governor <08660> [Tirshatha. or, governor.]

The person who held this office at this time was probably Zerubbabel. The word {Tirshatha} is supposed to be Persian; and if, as Castel supposes, it signifies austerity, or that fear which is impressed by the authority of a governor, it may be derived from {tars,} "ear," or {tursh,} "acid, austere."

eat <0398> [should not.]

Urim <0224> [Urim.]

2:64

42,360 <0702> [forty.]

Though the sum total, both here and in Nehemiah, is equal, namely, 42,360, yet the particulars reckoned up only make 29,818 in Ezra, and 31,089 in Nehemiah; and we find that Nehemiah mentions 1,765 persons who are not in Ezra, and Ezra has 494 not mentioned in Nehemiah. This last circumstance, which seems to render all hope of reconciling them impossible, Mr. Alting thinks is the very point by which they can be reconciled; for, if we add Ezra's surplus to the sum in Nehemiah, and Nehemiah's surplus to the number in Ezra, they will both amount to 31,583; which subtracted from 42,360, leaves a deficiency of 10,777, which are not named because they did not belong to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, or to the priests, but to the other Israelitish tribes.

2:65

servants <05650> [servants.]

7,337 ..... 200 <03967> [two hundred.]

2:68

voluntary offerings <05068> [offered freely.]

site <04349> [in his place.]

2:69

treasury <0214> [the treasure.]

2:70

Ezra 5:8

5:8

province <04083> [the province.]

great God <0426 07229> [the great God.]

large stones <069 01560> [great stones. Chal. stones of rolling.]

Ezra 6:2

6:2

Ecbatana <0307> [at Achmetha. or, at Ecbatana, or, in a coffer.]

[achmta <\\See definition 0712\\>,] probably from the Persian [chm,] {kham,} "a house for a summer residence," with a prefix, [a,] {aleph,} and the Chaldee termination [ta,] {tha,} most likely denotes Ecbatana, as the Vulgate and Josephus read, the summer residence of the Persian monarchs. It was situated in a mountainous region at the foot of mount Orontes, or Jasonius, according to Ammianus, on the southern confines of Media and Persia, and according to Pliny, 750 miles from Seleucia the Great, 20 miles from the Caspian passes, 450 miles from Susa, and the same from Gaz‘ Atropatene, and in lat. 37 degrees 45 min., long. 88 degrees, according to Ptolemy. The building of the city is ascribed to Semiramis by Diodorus, but to Deioces by Eusebius, (in Chron. 1.1,) and Herodotus, who states that it was surrounded by seven walls, strong and ample, built in circles one within another, rising each above each by the height of their respective battlements; each being distinguished by a different colour, the first white, the second black, the third purple, the fourth blue, the fifth orange, the sixth plated with silver, and the seventh with gold. The largest of these was nearly the extent of Athens, i.e., 200 furlongs, according to Dion Chrysostom; but Diodorus Siculus states the circumference of Ecbatana to be 250 furlongs. Within the inner circle stood the king's palace and the royal treasury, so much celebrated for its splendour and riches by Polybius. It is highly probable, as D'Anville and Major Rennel suppose, that the present Hamadan, whose ruins attest its former splendour, occupies the site of Ecbatana. It is situated in Al Gebal, at the foot of the lofty mountain Alwend, about 80 leagues from Ispahan, and also from Bagdad.