Ezra 5:10
We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
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Gill's Exposition
We asked their names also,.... The names of the elders, those that set men about this work:
to certify that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them; take the names of them in…
We have here, I. The cognizance which their neighbours soon took of the reviving of this good work. A jealous eye, it seems, they had upon them, and no sooner did the Spirit of God stir up the friends…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
We asked their names R.V. we asked them their names. So the Aramaic. For the names of the Elders, cf. Ezr 2:2.
the chief of them R.V. at the head of them. Literally -at or in the heads of them". The…