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Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible - Old Testament

An exposition, with practical observations, of the Book of Ezra

 

Ezra Exposition: Index | Introduction to the book of Ezra | Ezra 1 | Ezra 2 | Ezra 3 | Ezra 4 | Ezra 5 | Ezra 6 | Ezra 7 | Ezra 8 | Ezra 9 | Ezra 10

Ezra full text: Ezra 1 | Ezra 2 | Ezra 3 | Ezra 4 | Ezra 5 | Ezra 6 | Ezra 7 | Ezra 8 | Ezra 9 | Ezra 10

St-Takla.org Image: The heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, with all whose spirits God had moved, arose to go up and build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem (Ezra 1:5-6) صورة في موقع الأنبا تكلا: الشعب كله يتجمع لبناء بيت الرب في أورشليم (عزرا 1: 5-6)

St-Takla.org Image: The heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, with all whose spirits God had moved, arose to go up and build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem (Ezra 1:5-6)

صورة في موقع الأنبا تكلا: الشعب كله يتجمع لبناء بيت الرب في أورشليم (عزرا 1: 5-6)

The Jewish church puts on quite another face in this book from what it had appeared with; its state much better, and more pleasant, than it was of late in Babylon, and yet far inferior to what it had been formerly. The dry bones here live again, but in the form of a servant; the yoke of their captivity is taken off, but the marks of it in their galled necks remain. Kings we hear no more of; the crown has fallen from their heads. Prophets they are blessed with, to direct them in their re-establishment, but, after a while, prophecy ceases among them, till the great prophet appears, and his fore-runner, and you can find more about that here on st-takla.org on other commentaries and dictionary entries. The history of this book is the accomplishment of Jeremiah's prophecy concerning the return of the Jews out of Babylon at the end of seventy years, and a type of the accomplishment of the prophecies of the Apocalypse concerning the deliverance of the gospel church out of the New-Testament Babylon. Ezra preserved the records of that great revolution and transmitted them to the church in this book. His name signifies a helper; and so he was to that people. A particular account concerning him we shall meet with, ch. vii., where he himself enters upon the stage of action. The book gives us an account, I. Of the Jews' return out of their captivity, ch. i., ii. II. Of the building of the temple, the opposition it met with, and yet the perfecting of it at last, ch. iii.-vi. III. Of Ezra's coming to Jerusalem, ch. vii., viii. IV. Of the good service he did there, in obliging those that had married strange wives to put them away, ch. ix., x. This beginning again of the Jewish nation was small, yet its latter end greatly increased.

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