We are inEzra chapter 2this morning. I apologize, I'm gonna adjust this, it's gonna be loud probably. Ezra chapter 2. I'm just gonna read a few verses, the first couple…
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2:1 Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,
2:2 accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:
2:3 the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
2:4 the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;
2:5 the descendants of Arah, 775;
2:6 the descendants of Pahath-moab (through the line of Jeshua and Joab), 2,812;
2:7 the descendants of Elam, 1,254;
2:8 the descendants of Zattu, 945;
2:9 the descendants of Zaccai, 760;
2:10 the descendants of Bani, 642;
2:11 the descendants of Bebai, 623;
2:12 the descendants of Azgad, 1,222;
2:13 the descendants of Adonikam, 666;
2:14 the descendants of Bigvai, 2,056;
2:15 the descendants of Adin, 454;
2:16 the descendants of Ater (through Hezekiah), 98;
2:17 the descendants of Bezai, 323;
2:18 the descendants of Jorah, 112;
2:19 the descendants of Hashum, 223;
2:20 the descendants of Gibbar, 95;
2:21 the men of Bethlehem, 123;
2:22 the men of Netophah, 56;
2:23 the men of Anathoth, 128;
2:24 the descendants of Azmaveth, 42;
2:25 the men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743;
2:26 the men of Ramah and Geba, 621;
2:27 the men of Michmash, 122;
2:28 the men of Bethel and Ai, 223;
2:29 the descendants of Nebo, 52;
2:30 the descendants of Magbish, 156;
2:31 the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254;
2:32 the descendants of Harim, 320;
2:33 the men of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 725;
2:34 the men of Jericho, 345;
2:35 and the descendants of Senaah, 3,630.
2:36 The priests: The descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;
2:37 the descendants of Immer, 1,052;
2:38 the descendants of Pashhur, 1,247;
2:39 and the descendants of Harim, 1,017.
2:40 The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel (through the line of Hodaviah), 74.
2:41 The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 128.
2:42 The gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, and the descendants of Shobai, 139 in all.
2:43 The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth,
2:44 the descendants of Keros, the descendants of Siaha, the descendants of Padon,
2:45 the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagabah, the descendants of Akkub,
2:46 the descendants of Hagab, the descendants of Shalmai, the descendants of Hanan,
2:47 the descendants of Giddel, the descendants of Gahar, the descendants of Reaiah,
2:48 the descendants of Rezin, the descendants of Nekoda, the descendants of Gazzam,
2:49 the descendants of Uzza, the descendants of Paseah, the descendants of Besai,
2:50 the descendants of Asnah, the descendants of Meunim, the descendants of Nephusim,
2:51 the descendants of Bakbuk, the descendants of Hakupha, the descendants of Harhur,
2:52 the descendants of Bazluth, the descendants of Mehida, the descendants of Harsha,
2:53 the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah,
2:54 the descendants of Neziah, and the descendants of Hatipha.
2:55 The descendants of the servants of Solomon: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Hassophereth, the descendants of Peruda,
2:56 the descendants of Jaala, the descendants of Darkon, the descendants of Giddel,
2:57 the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil, the descendants of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the descendants of Ami.
2:58 The temple servants and descendants of the servants of Solomon numbered 392 in all.
2:59 The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:
2:60 the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, and the descendants of Nekoda, 652 in all.
2:61 And from among the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai (who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).
2:62 These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
2:63 The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.
2:64 The whole assembly numbered 42,360,
2:65 in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 200 male and female singers.
2:66 They had 736 horses, 245 mules,
2:67 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
2:68 When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site.
2:69 According to their ability, they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priestly garments.
2:70 So the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, along with some of the people, settled in their own towns; and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.
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We are inEzra chapter 2this morning. I apologize, I'm gonna adjust this, it's gonna be loud probably. Ezra chapter 2. I'm just gonna read a few verses, the first couple…
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…by God's providence, Nehemiah discovers this book, this book of genealogy. And it is the same list, almost verbatim, of the people that we find inEzra chapter 2. That was the people who came out of exile to rebuild the temple under Zerubbabel. So he finds this book of genealogy and he says, Well, we're…
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…Now, this is the rest of chapter 7 is going to be the list of people that did return to repopulate the city. This, as I mentioned, is largely fromEzra chapter 2. And so the idea is that these have populated more and more. You can draw your eyes just over to verse 62 real quick and see the sons of Delilah,…
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…powerful work of the Lord. He's all over this book. Yet he's not mentioned. And the reason he's not mentioned, we'll talk more about next week inEzra chapter 2. But the short version of is that the people of Israel are that at least the ones that are in Persia, that are still in captivity, they are in a…
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…the temple, they corral up Levites, they consult the genealogical records. Just think of the irony of how carefully they looked at the records inEzra chapter 2. There were dudes there with old school Hebrew names. Like they're not, they're legit Jews. But they weren't in the records, and so they weren't…
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…there's some chronology in Ezra where we go forward and backwards, but this is during Artaxerces. This is 80 years or so after the return inEzra chapter 2. We saw a genealogy at the beginning of the book. Eighty years have gone by then. This is the second return. But, well, I'll read you the names…
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…them back into the promised land. It's the second entrance into the promised land. And you saw last week when we looked at Exodus chapter, I meanEzra chapter 2, we saw the list of all the people that came back. Ezra 3, we find out what it is, all of these people, all the people that returns back, what it…
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…through the genealogies up until Advent. And I'm not joking. I heard some laughs as if that was a joke. No, it's it's true. Uh but tonight we're inEzra chapter 2. And this is 70 verses of names. 7-0. 70 verses of names, which will appear again in Nehemiah, by the way, almost identical list, and I will…
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…first generation that returned from exile. Remember, in Ezra chapter 1, the return to the land from exile is presented as a new exodus. And then inEzra chapter 2, the people are numbered for their march back to the land, just like the book of Numbers in the Torah. And in Ezra chapter 3, that we looked at…
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…influence he probably had based on that decision? maybe we can't make strong conclusions, but if you read this little obscure verse in the book ofEzra chapter 2, It's when the Israelites were many years. Many, many years after this song was written, were taken out of Israel to go into captivity in Babylon…
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