The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
The verse belongs to the record in Ezra 1-2 of the Jewish families who returned from Babylonian captivity to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple under the decree and proclamation of Cyrus, as part of those who responded and went up. This return was led by Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus. It records the children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, numbering 2,812. The whole return numbered 42,360 people.
The list in Ezra 2:1-65 shows that nearly fifty thousand accepted the offer of Cyrus and were free to return to their land, marking the end of the captivity, although many remained behind. It does not belong to B.C. 457, for that year marks the different going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, which is the commandment of God carried out through Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes and completed only when the last king acted in the seventh year of Artaxerxes. It belongs to the same period as the message of Haggai concerning the rebuilding of the temple. Like the parallel lists in Ezra and Nehemiah, it names the leading ones who went up from the captivity and consists simply of names of persons rather than an expressed promise to God's people.
The verse belongs to the record in Ezra 1-2 of the Jewish families who returned from Babylonian captivity to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple under the decree and proclamation of Cyrus, as part of those who responded and went up. This return was led by Zerubbabel in the first year of Cyrus. It records the children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, numbering 2,812. The whole return numbered 42,360 people.
The list in Ezra 2:1-65 shows that nearly fifty thousand accepted the offer of Cyrus and were free to return to their land, marking the end of the captivity, although many remained behind. It does not belong to B.C. 457, for that year marks the different going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, which is the commandment of God carried out through Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes and completed only when the last king acted in the seventh year of Artaxerxes. It belongs to the same period as the message of Haggai concerning the rebuilding of the temple. Like the parallel lists in Ezra and Nehemiah, it names the leading ones who went up from the captivity and consists simply of names of persons rather than an expressed promise to God's people.