Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezra 2:1

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezra 2:1 - 2:1

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezra 2:1 - 2:1

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Ezr 2:1-70. Number of the people that returned.

children of the province - that is, Judea (Ezr 5:8), so called as being now reduced from an illustrious, independent, and powerful kingdom to an obscure, servile, tributary province of the Persian empire. This name is applied by the sacred historian to intimate that the Jewish exiles, though now released from captivity and allowed to return into their own land, were still the subjects of Cyrus, inhabiting a province dependent upon Persia.

came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city - either the city that had been occupied by his ancestors, or, as most parts of Judea were then either desolate or possessed by others, the city that was rebuilt and allotted to him now.