Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezra 4:9

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezra 4:9 - 4:9

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezra 4:9 - 4:9

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4:1 - 4:1
4:2 - 4:2
4:3 - 4:3
4:4 - 4:4
4:6 - 4:6
4:7 - 4:7
4:9 - 4:9
4:12 - 4:12
4:13 - 4:13
4:14 - 4:14
4:24 - 4:24

the Dinaites - The people named were the colonists sent by the Babylonian monarch to occupy the territory of the ten tribes. “The great and noble Asnappar” was Esar-haddon. Immediately after the murder of Sennacherib, the Babylonians, Medes, Armenians, and other tributary people seized the opportunity of throwing off the Assyrian yoke. But Esar-haddon having, in the thirtieth year of his reign, recovered Babylon and subdued the other rebellious dependents, transported numbers of them into the waste cities of Samaria, most probably as a punishment of their revolt [Hales].