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Selected Verse: Ezra 2:70 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ezr 2:70 |
King James |
So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
All Israel - That the Israelites of the ten tribes returned to Palestine with Zerubbabel is apparent:
(1) from Ch1 9:3;
(2) from the enumeration of twelve chiefs (Neh 7:7; 1 Esd. 5:8); and
(3) from various expressions in Ezra Ezr 2:2, Ezr 2:59; Ezr 3:1. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| And all Israel in their cities - And they dwelt in peace, in perfect harmony, a blessed presage of their settlement, as their discord in the latter times of that state, was of their ruin. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Dwelt in their cities - They all went to those cities which belonged originally to their respective families. |
1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
59 And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
2 Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;
3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;