Journey, h I require my Officers to take care that they may be.4em ro their former Unity and Form,
be delivered to the Fews, who could, without great dithculry,reſtore
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8 Even thoſe did Cyrus king of Perſia bring forth |
by the hand of Michredath the treaſurer, and num-
+ Gee Che bred them 7 unto * Sheſhbazzar o the prince of Judah p.
14+ » i{e. Hecauſed them ro be delivered ro the Jews by number.
ſ 0 7. e. Zerobabel, as appears by comparing c. 3. 8. with 5. 16. tO
whom the Perſians, or rather the Caldeans, had given this name of
Sh jhbazzar,"s they gave other names to Daniel, and his companions,
Dan. 1. 7. p And the Captain and Governour of theſe returaing Jews, <ap. 2. 2. SotheScepter is not yet departed from Judas.
' 9 And this js the number of them: thircy chargers of
gold, a thouſand chargers of ſilver, nine and
ewenty knives 9. | |
' q Large Knives uſed in the kil!ing of the Sacrifices, which are here mentioned, becauſe the Hafts of them were made of, or co* vered with Gold or Silver.
110 Thirty baſons of gold, ſilver baſons of a {ſecond fort r, four hundred and ten : and other vellcls a thou- ſand s.
+ The firſt or chief were of Go19, and theſe of Silver are called the ſecond, or next to them of worth and ute. 5. He ſpeaks of Ve:- ſels of a middle ſize; fo: great and ſmall wer” 5400, as it follov's here. Or, as ſome render it, other Veſſ ls by thouſands: they wer: not diſt-n&ly numbred according to the:r various forms and ules, but were promiſcuouſly pur t-:gether by thouſ«nds.
ir All the vetteis of goid, and of filver, were five thouſand and- four hundred. All rheſe did Sheihbazzar bring up with them of + the captivity, thac were brought up from Babylon unto Jeruſalem.
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The number of the Perple that returned, 1 35. and «f the Priiſts , 36 39. of rhe Levitis, 40, of the ſingers, 41. of the Porters, 42. of the Nethinims, 4; 54. and of Solymos Servants, 55--60 Concerning the Prieſts that c:uld no: ſhew their Pedegree, 61 63. The whole number of them and their Subſt ance, 64 67. Ter Oblations G68 70.
Ow * theſe are the children of the province # that 4 went up out of the captivity, of thoſe which - had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jeruſaiem and Judah, every one unto hs city 6b; ai, e. The Iſraelites, called the children of the Province, enther 1. Sy Of Babylon, of which Province we oft read, as ch. 7. 16. Dan. 2.48. &3.'", 12, 30. called the Province by way of eminency 3 of which they are called Ck.ldren, becauſe -»f their Birth aud Hab:tation in it for a long time, it being uſu] to call rhe Inh3birants of any City or - place irs Children. Or rather 2. Of Judea, called a Pr:vince, ch. 5.8. And he cal's it chus ernphatically ro mind himſelf and his Brethren of that ſad Change which rheir Sins had made among them, thar from 2n illuſtrious, independent, and formidable Kingdom, were fallen to be an ebſcure, 1ſervile, and contemptible Province, ficſt under the Chaldeans, and now undcr the Perſians 6 Either unto thoſe Cities or Towns which belong:d to their ſeveral Anceſtors | Or rather, to thoſe which were now allotted to them, and from this time poſſeſſed by them, For rheir former Cities were either demoliſhed,or poſſeſſed by cther Perſons, which they were not now in a capacity of diſturbing. 2 Which came -with Zerubbabel c Jeſhua, Nehe- PP miah, || Serajah, Reelajah, Mordecai, Bilſhan, Miſpar, oy * Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah :; the number of the men of
Neb.7.9. the people of Iſrael.
c As for this Catalogue, it differs in ſome names and numbers from that Neh. 7. which might be frm divers cauſes, partly be- cauſe ſeveral names were given to «ne and the ſawe Perſon ; and partly becauſe of the many Chang's which mizhr happen in the ſame Families berween the t:me of the firſt making of this C:ta- logue by Ezra, and the mak ng of it anew ſo many Years as that Catalogue Nehem, 7. was made after the fofmer.
3 The children d of Paroſh e, two thouſand an hun-
dred ſeventy and two.
d i.e. The Poſteriry, as the word 1s for the moſt part if not conſtantly raken in this Catalogue» e That deſcended either from Pareſh, or from that Family whereof Paroſbh was the chief. And ſo for the reſt, :
4 The children of Shephatiah, three bundred ſeventy and two. | |
5 The children of Arah, ſeven hundred ſeventy and hve f. |
f In Nehem.. 75. 10+. they were only 652. It ſeems 775+ marched out of Babylon, or gave in their names thar they would go; but ſome of them died, others changed their Minds, others were hin- dred by Sickneſs, or other C:lvatities, happening to themſelves or near Relaricns 5 and fo there came only $52. ro Feruſal-m.And rhe like is to be ſid in the like differences ; which ir fuifices to hint
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i *7* 6 The children of * Pahath-moab,of the children of Jeſhuah, and Joab g, two thouſand eight hundred and twelve,
gz Or, of Feſhuah- Joib, as the former was Pahath-moabs 7 The chiidren of Elam, a thoutand cwo hundred fifry and four.
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five. 9 The children of Zaccai, ſeven hundred and three {core, ES | Or, zi» +o The children of || Bani, fix hundred forty and two.
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12 The children of Azgad, a thouſand two hundred | ewenty and two.
12 The chiidren of Adonikam, ſix hundred ſixty and ſix.
14 The children of Bigvai, two thouſand and hfty and fix. | 15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and
four. | | | ' 16 The children of Ater of Hezekiah b, ninety and eight. | h
h Of Ater the ſon of Hezekiah, not the king, bur another famoug perſon 1o called. | |
17 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three; |
18 The children of | Jorah; an hundred and :; -. -. rwelve. | | on, _
19 The children of Haſbum, two hundred twenty Net - and three:
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| 24. 20 The children of || Gibbar, ninty and five. PIR 21 The children of Beth-lchem 5, an hundred cwenty || Or, be and three. Neh. 7.
z Either of a Man called Bethlehem, or the Bet lehemite by way of 25« eminency. Or, of tie place fo called. And fo theſe were the re- mainders of the Inhabitants of that City. And the like may bs