The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
The children of Ramah and Gaba numbered six hundred twenty and one among those who returned. The entry stands in the list of Ezra 2:1-65 naming the Israelites who returned from the Babylonian captivity to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus after his decree. The whole company numbered 42,360 in all, with nearly fifty thousand taking up the offer to return to their own land. Their return shows that the decree ended the captivity by making the people free to leave Babylon, even though many Jews still remained in exile.
It belongs to the record in the first two chapters of Ezra of the temple begun under the decree of Cyrus. It does not belong to a beginning in B.C. 457. That year marks the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes.
The children of Ramah and Gaba numbered six hundred twenty and one among those who returned. The entry stands in the list of Ezra 2:1-65 naming the Israelites who returned from the Babylonian captivity to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus after his decree. The whole company numbered 42,360 in all, with nearly fifty thousand taking up the offer to return to their own land. Their return shows that the decree ended the captivity by making the people free to leave Babylon, even though many Jews still remained in exile.
It belongs to the record in the first two chapters of Ezra of the temple begun under the decree of Cyrus. It does not belong to a beginning in B.C. 457. That year marks the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes.