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Ezra
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Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king: See also: Ezra 7:7Ezra 2:62Ezra 7:13Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush. See also: 1 Chronicles 3:221 Chronicles 6:3-151 Chronicles 3:1Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty. See also: Ezra 2:3Nehemiah 7:8Nehemiah 10:14Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males. See also: Ezra 2:6Nehemiah 10:14Nehemiah 7:11Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males. Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males. See also: Nehemiah 7:20Ezra 2:15Nehemiah 10:16Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males. See also: Nehemiah 7:34Ezra 2:31Ezra 2:7Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty males. See also: Nehemiah 7:9Ezra 2:4Nehemiah 11:4Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred eighteen males. See also: Ezra 2:6Nehemiah 7:11Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him one hundred sixty males. Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males. See also: Ezra 10:28Ezra 2:11Nehemiah 7:16Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males. See also: Ezra 2:12Nehemiah 7:17Of the sons of Adonikam, who were the last, their names are: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males. See also: Ezra 2:13Nehemiah 7:18Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males. See also: Nehemiah 7:19Ezra 2:14Nehemiah 10:12I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days. Then I looked around at the people and the priests, and found there were none of the sons of Levi. See also: Ezra 8:31Ezra 7:7Ezra 8:21Then I sent for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, for Elnathan, for Jarib, for Elnathan, for Nathan, for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib and for Elnathan, who were teachers. See also: Proverbs 2:61 Chronicles 12:321 Kings 3:11I sent them out to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo and his brothers the temple servants at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God. See also: Ezra 2:43Ezra 7:7Numbers 8:22-26According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen; See also: Jeremiah 3:15Nehemiah 2:8Ezra 7:28and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty; See also: 1 Chronicles 6:11 Chronicles 6:161 Chronicles 6:19and of the temple servants, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred twenty temple servants. All of them were mentioned by name. See also: Ezra 2:43Ezra 7:71 Chronicles 9:2Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, for our little ones, and for all our possessions. See also: 2 Chronicles 20:3Joel 1:14Isaiah 30:21For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.” See also: 1 Peter 3:12Psalms 33:18-192 Chronicles 16:9So we fasted and begged our God for this, and he granted our request. See also: Jeremiah 29:12-13Matthew 7:7-8Ezra 8:31Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them, See also: Ezra 8:18-19and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered. See also: Ezra 7:14-16Ezra 8:33Ezra 1:8I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver, one hundred talents of silver vessels, one hundred talents of gold, See also: Ezra 1:9-11twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold. See also: Lamentations 4:2I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free will offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers. See also: Leviticus 22:2-3Leviticus 21:6-8Isaiah 52:11Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel at Jerusalem, in the rooms of the LORD’s house.” See also: Ezra 8:33-342 Timothy 4:51 Chronicles 26:20-26So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver, the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God. See also: Ezra 8:22Psalms 122:9Isaiah 60:13Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandits by the way. See also: Ezra 8:15Ezra 7:9Ezra 8:21-22We came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days. See also: Nehemiah 2:11Ezra 7:8-9On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levites. See also: Nehemiah 3:4Ezra 8:30Nehemiah 3:21Everything was counted and weighed; and all the weight was written at that time. The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD. See also: Ezra 6:17Psalms 66:10-15Psalms 116:12-19They delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s local governors and to the governors beyond the River. So they supported the people and God’s house. See also: Ezra 7:21-24Ezra 5:6-17Isaiah 56:6-7
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Ezra 8:2
Ver. 2. Hattus. He was of the royal family, (H.) as the former were descendants of the two sons of Aaron. C. --- The great numbers which were persuaded to return from Babylon, signify the conversions made by holy preachers. V. Bede.
W.
↑ 2Ezra 8:5
Ver. 5. Sons. Sept. and Arab. add, "of Zathoe, Sechenias, the son of Aziel." The Syr. supplies the name of "Gabo, the son of Nahzael," which seems to have been lost. C. --- Junius translates,
"of the descendants Sechenias N. son of Jahaziel."
↑ 5Ezra 8:10
Ver. 10. Sons of. Sept. supply "Baani," whose name occurs, C. ii. 10, and is here visibly wanting. C.
↑ 10Ezra 8:13
Ver. 13. Last. Coming after their brethren. C. ii. 13.
↑ 13Ezra 8:14
Ver. 14. Zachur. Heb. and Sept. "Zabud." C. --- Two letters have been mistaken.
H.
↑ 14Ezra 8:15
Ver. 15. Ahava. This river (v. 21. and 31.) runs through the territory of the same name, called Hava; (4 K. xvii. 24.) the people of which exchanged places with the Israelites. Esdras makes a circuit to prevail on some of the latter to return with him, unless he began his journey from Susa.
Babylon comprises all that country. C. --- None there, who were not priests, v.
2. Lyran. M.
↑ 15Ezra 8:16
Ver. 16. Sent. Sept. "&c. "to Eliezer," &c. in order to give them his orders what to say to Eddo, who presided at Chasphia, as the sequel shews. --- Wise men, instructors of the people, (2 Par.
xxxv. 3. C.) Levites. M.
↑ 16Ezra 8:17
Ver. 17. Chasphia. The Caspian mountains, between Media and Hyrcania. Here the Nathinites were forced to labour, under Eddo. The service of the temple would be far more eligible. C.
↑ 17Ezra 8:21
Ver. 21. Fast it seems for eight days, so that they departed on the 12th, v. 31. M.
--- It will not suffice to leave sin, we must also do works of satisfaction. W.
↑ 21Ezra 8:22
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 22. Forsake him. Apostates are treated with the greatest severity. M. ---
Esdras thought that the glory of God was at stake, and he would not shew any diffidence in Providence, or scandalize the infidels. C. --- We ought not to ask princes for what we should despise. D.
↑ 22Ezra 8:26
Ver. 26. A hundred. Heb. adds, "talents," vessels of silver. H. --- Some Rabbins suppose there were only 100, each of this weight, which is not probable. All the silver vessels, of different sizes, weighed 100 talents. There was the same quantity of golden vessels. C.
↑ 26Ezra 8:27
Ver. 27. Solids. Heb. adarconim. Darics, equivalent to the golden sicle. C. 1 Par.
xxix. 7. ---
Best. Prot. "of fine copper, precious as gold." It might resemble the Corinthian brass, or aurichalcum, (H.) composed of gold, silver, and brass melted together, in the burning of Corinth, by L. Mummius. Pliny xxxiv. 2. --- Yet no such Corinthian vessels have come down to us; so that the account seems fabulous; and, at any rate, the city was not taken in the days of Esdras, but A.
608 of Rome. We cannot say whether he speaks of copper, brass, &c. C.
↑ 27Ezra 8:35
Ver. 35. Israel. Some of the different tribes certainly returned. C. vi. 17.
↑ 35Ezra 8:36
Ver. 36. Lords, ( satrapis. ) 3 Esd. "to the royal officers and governors of Cœlosyria and Phenicia; and they glorified," &c. --- Furthered, by their assistance (H.) and praise. They formed their sentiments, as is usual, by those of the king. C.
↑ 36License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses