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Ezr_2:2 Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
Ver 2. That came with Zerubbabel] That famous prince of Judah, Ezr_1:8, governor of Judah, Hag_1:1, who was born in Babylon, and accordingly had a Babylonian name. His hands laid the foundation of the second temple, his hands also finished, Zec_4:9, whence some conclude that the Lord gave him a life much longer than ordinary. His children shall not to bed till their work be done.
Jeshua] This was that Jehoshuah the high priest, the great assistant of Zerubbabel in building the Temple, Ezr_5:2 Hag_1:14. These were those faithful witnesses of God in their generation, as before them had been Moses and Aaron, Elijah and Elisha, and as after them Paul and Barnabas, Luther and Melancthon, Oecolampadius and Zwinglius, &c. Christ sent out his disciples by two and two: for two is better than one; and why? see Ecc_4:9-12.
Nehemiah, Saraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai] Not that famous Nehemiah nor that renowned Mordecai so much spoken of in the Book of Esther but others of the same name. Reasons see in Mr Pemble’s Period of the Persian Monarchy, pp. 30, 31.
Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah] These were all of them guides and governors to the rest, eminent and eximious. To whom in Nehemiah is added a twelfth man, Nahumani by name, who better bethought himself belike; and having answered with that young man in the Gospel, and said, I will not, yet afterwards repented and went. Nunquam sere, si serio. This was better than those many that answered and said, We go, sir, and yet went not, Mat_21:29-30.
The number of the men of the people of Israel] The former were names, men of renown in the congregation. {confer Act_1:15 Rev_3:3} The rest that follow are but numbers, Nos numeri sumus, &c., men of common condition, the many, ïé ðïëëïé , who are set down in the sequel of the chapter.