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John Gill's Exposition on Ezra 8:2
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel, etc.] Not Daniel the prophet, he was of the royal blood, and of the tribe of Judah; this was a priest, a descendant of Ithamar, as Gershom was of Eleazar in the line of Phinehas: of the sons of David; Hattush; perhaps the same with him in (<130322>1 Chronicles 3:22), who was a descendant of David the king; these three men seem to have come alone without any of their families, at least they are not mentioned, nor their numbers given, as the rest that follow be. Ver. 3-14. Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh, etc.] Who is so described, to distinguish him from another Shechaniah, (<150805>Ezra 8:5), Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy, of the males an hundred and fifty; males only were reckoned, not women and children; though that there were such that went up is clear from (<150821>Ezra 8:21), from hence to the end of (<150814>Ezra 8:14) an account is given of the number of the males that went up with Ezra, who were chiefly, if not altogether, sons of those that went up with Zerubbabel; such of them as were left there behind, and now returned, at least a great number of them, (see <150201>Ezra 2:1), it is particularly remarked of the sons of Adonikam, (<150813>Ezra 8:13), that they were the last of them; not that they were the last that came in to go with Ezra, or were backward and dilatory, but the last with respect to the first of his sons that were gone before, and seem with them to be the whole of his family; the number of all that went up under their respective heads amounts to 1496.
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