The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.
The verse records that 454 descendants of Adin returned from the Babylonian captivity. It belongs to the list of the Jews who had already gone up to Jerusalem and to their own land with Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus after his proclamation and decree, in response to it. That first return with Zerubbabel numbered 42,360 persons in all.
The list in Ezra 2:1-65 shows that nearly fifty thousand Jews took the opportunity to return, and the decree ended the captivity by making the people free to go. They are part of the list of Israelite returnees whose total was 49,897. Many Jews remained in Babylon and in exile rather than returning at that time. Those who remained were afterward invited to return and went up later with Ezra, so the verse belongs to the first return distinct from that later return.
It is included in the account of the return from exile and the rebuilding of the temple in Ezra 1-6, which gives the historical setting for Haggai's message belonging to the period of that rebuilding. It belongs to the record in Ezra 1-2 of the temple begun under the decree of Cyrus, not to the work dated to B.C. 457, which marks the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem in its fulness after the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes. It is part of the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity and is simply a record of names and numbers rather than an expressed precious promise to God's people, belonging with the more than fifteen hundred verses of names of persons that reduce the verses that could be counted as promises and show there cannot be thirty-six thousand distinct promises in the Bible.
The verse records that 454 descendants of Adin returned from the Babylonian captivity. It belongs to the list of the Jews who had already gone up to Jerusalem and to their own land with Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus after his proclamation and decree, in response to it. That first return with Zerubbabel numbered 42,360 persons in all.
The list in Ezra 2:1-65 shows that nearly fifty thousand Jews took the opportunity to return, and the decree ended the captivity by making the people free to go. They are part of the list of Israelite returnees whose total was 49,897. Many Jews remained in Babylon and in exile rather than returning at that time. Those who remained were afterward invited to return and went up later with Ezra, so the verse belongs to the first return distinct from that later return.
It is included in the account of the return from exile and the rebuilding of the temple in Ezra 1-6, which gives the historical setting for Haggai's message belonging to the period of that rebuilding. It belongs to the record in Ezra 1-2 of the temple begun under the decree of Cyrus, not to the work dated to B.C. 457, which marks the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem in its fulness after the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes. It is part of the lists in Ezra and Nehemiah of the leading ones who went up from the captivity and is simply a record of names and numbers rather than an expressed precious promise to God's people, belonging with the more than fifteen hundred verses of names of persons that reduce the verses that could be counted as promises and show there cannot be thirty-six thousand distinct promises in the Bible.