And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
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Gill's Exposition
So that the far greatest part of them must walk on foot, since these can be thought to be little more than sufficient to carry their goods or baggage; some copies of the Vulgate Latin read six hundred…
Barnes' Notes
The Tirshatha - i. e., Zerubbabel. See margin. The word is probably old Persian, though it does not occur in the cuneiform inscriptions. Some derive it from a root “to fear.” See the introduction to…
Adam Clarke
The Tirshatha - This is generally supposed to be Nehemiah, or the person who was the commandant; see Neh 8:9; Neh 10:1, for the word appears to be the name of an office. The Vulgate and Septuagint…
Here is an account, I. Of the priests that returned, and they were a considerable number, about a tenth part of the whole company: for the whole were above 42,000 (Ezr 2:64), and four families of…
Cambridge Bible
the Tirshatha This title is here and in Neh 7:65; Neh 7:70 apparently applied to Zerubbabel: Haggai his contemporary calls him -Pekhah" (Governor), see Hag 1:1; Hag 1:14; Hag 2:2; Hag 2:21. In the…
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