Morning Bible Study Ezra 2:1-35 20141225 Ezr 2:1 Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town. Ezr 2:2 They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: Ezr 2:3 the sons of Parosh, 2,172. Ezr 2:4 The sons of Shephatiah, 372. Ezr 2:5 The sons of Arah, 775. Ezr 2:6 The sons of Pahath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,812. Ezr 2:7 The sons of Elam, 1,254. Ezr 2:8 The sons of Zattu, 945. Ezr 2:9 The sons of Zaccai, 760. Ezr 2:10 The sons of Bani, 642. Ezr 2:11 The sons of Bebai, 623. Ezr 2:12 The sons of Azgad, 1,222. Ezr 2:13 The sons of Adonikam, 666. Ezr 2:14 The sons of Bigvai, 2,056. Ezr 2:15 The sons of Adin, 454. Ezr 2:16 The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, 98. Ezr 2:17 The sons of Bezai, 323. Ezr 2:18 The sons of Jorah, 112. Ezr 2:19 The sons of Hashum, 223. Ezr 2:20 The sons of Gibbar, 95. Ezr 2:21 The sons of Bethlehem, 123. Ezr 2:22 The men of Netophah, 56. Ezr 2:23 The men of Anathoth, 128. Ezr 2:24 The sons of Azmaveth, 42. Ezr 2:25 The sons of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743. Ezr 2:26 The sons of Ramah and Geba, 621. Ezr 2:27 The men of Michmas, 122. Ezr 2:28 The men of Bethel and Ai, 223. Ezr 2:29 The sons of Nebo, 52. Ezr 2:30 The sons of Magbish, 156. Ezr 2:31 The sons of the other Elam, 1,254. Ezr 2:32 The sons of Harim, 320. Ezr 2:33 The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 725. Ezr 2:34 The sons of Jericho, 345. Ezr 2:35 The sons of Senaah, 3,630. Ezra 2:1-70 Nevertheless, God still gives the people-guilty under the law-an opportunity for the exercise of faith. Let us examine the principles that characterise the energy of the Holy Ghost in the people at the time of their return. The first thing to be observed is that, having felt what it was to have to do with the Gentiles, and having experienced the power and wickedness of those whose help they had formerly sought (the unclean spirit was, in this respect, gone out of them), the children of the captivity resolve that Israel shall be an unmingled Israel, and proved to be so. They are most careful in verifying the genealogies of the people, and of the priests, in order that none but Israel should be engaged in the work. Formerly one priest succeeded another without previous examination; genealogy was not verified, and children came into their fathers place in the enjoyment of the privileges which God had granted them. But Israel now, through the great grace of God, had to recover their position. This was neither the beginning of their history, nor the power suited to the beginning; it was a return, and the disorder that sin had brought in was not henceforth to be endured. They were escaping from the fruits of it, at least in part. What had any but Israel to do there? To mark out the family of God was now the essential thing. Deliverance from Babylon was their deliverance. It was this family, or a small remnant of it, which God had brought, or was bringing, out from thence. Thus, even amongst those who had come back to Judea, whoever could not produce his genealogy was set aside; and every priest with whom this was the case was put away from the priesthood as polluted, whatever, as it appears, might be the reality of his qualification. Divine discernment might, perhaps, recognise them and their rights another day; but the people who had returned from captivity could not do so. They were a numbered and recognised people. They dwelt each in his own city. It was weakness, no priest with Urim and Thummim, but it was faithfulness. Synopsis of the Old and New Testaments John Nelson Darby (1800 - 1882) I love it God is bring His people back to a personal relationship with Him. Revelation from God
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