Ezra 2:3

The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred and seventy two. From hence, to the end of Ezr 2:35, a list is given of the captives that returned, described by the families they were of, their…

The children of Parosh - Where the word children is found in this table, prefixed to the name of a man, it signifies the descendants of that person, as from Ezra 2:3-21. Where it is found prefixed to…

We may observe here, 1. That an account was kept in writing of the families that came up out of captivity, and the numbers of each family. This was done for their honour, as part of their recompence…

Names of households or families. Many of these names occur again in other lists, e.g. Ezr 8:1-14; Ezr 10:18-44; Neh 10:1-27, and in connexion with much later events in the lifetime of Ezra and…