The children of Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
Ezra 2:25 stands in the register of the Jews who came back from Babylon to Jerusalem to their own land under the decree of Cyrus for rebuilding the temple. The list belongs to the account of the return from exile and the work of rebuilding, the same history in which the temple builders grew discouraged. It is part of the record of those who accepted the proclamation and went up to Jerusalem for that purpose.
That return was led with Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus and numbered 42,360 persons. The whole account in Ezra 2:1-65 is reckoned as nearly fifty thousand taking the offer and returning. Many other Jews remained behind in Babylon in captivity, though they were free to go and were invited to come out. This first return is distinct from the later company that went up to Jerusalem with Ezra. It belongs to the same historical period as Haggai's message to the discouraged builders of the temple.
Ezra 2:25 stands in the register of the Jews who came back from Babylon to Jerusalem to their own land under the decree of Cyrus for rebuilding the temple. The list belongs to the account of the return from exile and the work of rebuilding, the same history in which the temple builders grew discouraged. It is part of the record of those who accepted the proclamation and went up to Jerusalem for that purpose.
That return was led with Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus and numbered 42,360 persons. The whole account in Ezra 2:1-65 is reckoned as nearly fifty thousand taking the offer and returning. Many other Jews remained behind in Babylon in captivity, though they were free to go and were invited to come out. This first return is distinct from the later company that went up to Jerusalem with Ezra. It belongs to the same historical period as Haggai's message to the discouraged builders of the temple.