Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsKJV
Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
ASV
Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
YLT
Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
DBT
Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
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.
Voices1
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
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.