Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.
The verse names the sons of Shechaniah, including the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males, giving simply names of persons and their number. It belongs to the account of the large group of Jews and exiles who responded to the invitation to leave Babylon and travel to and return to Jerusalem with Ezra. This was the second company that went up from Babylon to Jerusalem under Ezra the Jewish priest and scribe, its organizer, who was highly favored by Artaxerxes Longimanus king of Persia. Ezra was not with the first company but with the second, which numbered about 1,800 Israelite men, whom he consulted at the river Ahava before the journey.
The company accompanied Ezra with the decree of Artaxerxes and left Babylon for Jerusalem in 457 B.C., when Artaxerxes gave the decree for the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the restoration of the commonwealth. That decree is where the decree of Daniel 9:25 and the 2,300 days of Daniel 8:14 begin. The verse belongs to B.C. 458, fifty-eight years after B.C. 515, about threescore years after the first return and two-score years after the completion of the temple. It stands after the story of Esther in the middle of the reign of Xerxes from B.C. 485 to 474.
The verse is in the book written by Ezra the priest and belongs to the remainder of the book after the renewed and greatly enlarged decree of Artaxerxes Longimanus, successor of Darius Hystaspes and Xerxes. That remainder records the experiences of the Jews at Jerusalem, their backsliding, their humility, their seeking of God, and the faithful reproofs given by Ezra and others. As a list of the leading ones who went up from the captivity, the verse is not an expressed precious promise to God's people, showing that not every verse in the Bible is a promise.
The verse names the sons of Shechaniah, including the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males, giving simply names of persons and their number. It belongs to the account of the large group of Jews and exiles who responded to the invitation to leave Babylon and travel to and return to Jerusalem with Ezra. This was the second company that went up from Babylon to Jerusalem under Ezra the Jewish priest and scribe, its organizer, who was highly favored by Artaxerxes Longimanus king of Persia. Ezra was not with the first company but with the second, which numbered about 1,800 Israelite men, whom he consulted at the river Ahava before the journey.
The company accompanied Ezra with the decree of Artaxerxes and left Babylon for Jerusalem in 457 B.C., when Artaxerxes gave the decree for the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the restoration of the commonwealth. That decree is where the decree of Daniel 9:25 and the 2,300 days of Daniel 8:14 begin. The verse belongs to B.C. 458, fifty-eight years after B.C. 515, about threescore years after the first return and two-score years after the completion of the temple. It stands after the story of Esther in the middle of the reign of Xerxes from B.C. 485 to 474.
The verse is in the book written by Ezra the priest and belongs to the remainder of the book after the renewed and greatly enlarged decree of Artaxerxes Longimanus, successor of Darius Hystaspes and Xerxes. That remainder records the experiences of the Jews at Jerusalem, their backsliding, their humility, their seeking of God, and the faithful reproofs given by Ezra and others. As a list of the leading ones who went up from the captivity, the verse is not an expressed precious promise to God's people, showing that not every verse in the Bible is a promise.