The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
The verse belongs to the list of those who responded to the proclamation of Cyrus and went up to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. It records 2,172 descendants of Parosh among those who returned with Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus, as part of a total of 42,360 people. It is part of a list naming the Israelites who returned from the Babylonian captivity and giving their numbers, whose total is given as 49,897.
The record shows that nearly fifty thousand accepted the offer of Cyrus and returned to their land when the captivity ended. The people were free to return even though many remained in Babylon. The verse stands in Ezra 1 to 6, which belongs to the same time as the book of Haggai and records the building of the temple at Jerusalem to which Haggai directly refers.
That history places the verse about B.C. 520, fifteen years after the foundations of the temple were laid, when Jerusalem was in dilapidated condition and the temple building was languishing. At that time the people had departed from the Lord and become discouraged, and the rulers were Darius Hystaspes and Zerubbabel governor of Judea with Haggai and Zechariah as prophets. The verse 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. B.C. 457 marks the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes, which is the commandment of God carried out through Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes and complete in its fulness only when the last king acted.
The verse belongs to the list of those who responded to the proclamation of Cyrus and went up to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. It records 2,172 descendants of Parosh among those who returned with Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus, as part of a total of 42,360 people. It is part of a list naming the Israelites who returned from the Babylonian captivity and giving their numbers, whose total is given as 49,897.
The record shows that nearly fifty thousand accepted the offer of Cyrus and returned to their land when the captivity ended. The people were free to return even though many remained in Babylon. The verse stands in Ezra 1 to 6, which belongs to the same time as the book of Haggai and records the building of the temple at Jerusalem to which Haggai directly refers.
That history places the verse about B.C. 520, fifteen years after the foundations of the temple were laid, when Jerusalem was in dilapidated condition and the temple building was languishing. At that time the people had departed from the Lord and become discouraged, and the rulers were Darius Hystaspes and Zerubbabel governor of Judea with Haggai and Zechariah as prophets. The verse 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. B.C. 457 marks the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes, which is the commandment of God carried out through Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes and complete in its fulness only when the last king acted.