And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
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Gill's Exposition
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity,.... The tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with some of the ten tribes mixed with them:
and all such as had separated themselves unto…
Barnes' Notes
With this verse the writer resumes the use of the Hebrew language, which he had discarded for the Chaldee from Ezr 4:8. With the exception of the letter of Artaxerxes Ezr 7:12-26, all the remainder of…
Here we have, I. The Jews' enemies made their friends. When they received this order from the king they came with as much haste to encourage and assist the work as their predecessors had done to put a…
Cambridge Bible
The Hebrew is here resumed.
the children of the captivity cf. Ezr 6:16; Ezr 8:35.
kept the passover on the 14th of the 1st month (Nisan) as was commanded in Exo 12:6. Very few celebrations of the…