Ezra 2:70
Ezra 4:1
enemies <06862> [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.
exiles <01473 01121> [children of the captivity. Heb. sons of the transportation.]
Ezra 10:25
Israelites <03478> [Moreover of Israel.]
That is, as Calmet observes, simple Israelites; thus distinguished from the priests, Levites, and singers, mentioned in ver. 18, 23, 24.
descendants ... Parosh <06551 01121> [sons of Parosh.]
