Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
And of the singers: Eliashib. And of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
And of the singers: Eliashib. And of the gatekeepers: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
And of the singers: Eliashib. And of the doorkeepers: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
Ezra — The return in two waves — Zerubbabel's altar and temple (538 BC) and Ezra's reforming arrival (458 BC). A book about rebuilding — the temple, the Torah-teaching community, and the covenant boundary.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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What good impressions were made upon the people by Ezra's humiliation and confession of sin. No sooner was it noised in the city that their new governor, in whom they rejoiced, was himself in grief, and to so great a degree, for them and their sin, than presently there assembled to him a very great congregation, to see what the matter was and to mingle their tears with his,
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
