Esdras 7:7

7 Alguns dos israelitas, inclusive sacerdotes, levitas, cantores, porteiros e servidores do templo, também foram para Jerusalém no sétimo ano do reinado de Artaxerxes.

Esdras 7:7 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 7:7

And there went up some of the children of Israel
Perhaps some of the ten tribes, as well as others of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin; who, notwithstanding the edict of Cyrus, chose to remain in Babylon, and in the countries of it, until they saw how things would go in Judea; and hearing that the temple was finished, and that those that had returned had built them houses in their several cities, and prospered, thought fit to return also:

and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters,
and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem;
to take their places, and execute their offices in the temple now built; for of the Levites especially, some of which were singers, and others porters, and of the Nethinims, there were but few that went up with Zerubbabel: now this journey of theirs was taken

in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king;
that is, of Darius Artaxerxes, and this was the year after the temple was finished: though it is thought by many learned men, and not without some show of reason, that Artaxerxes Longimanus is meant.

Esdras 7:7 In-Context

5 filho de Abisua, filho de Fineias, filho de Eleazar, filho do sumo sacerdote Arão.

6 Este Esdras veio da Babilônia. Era um escriba que conhecia muito a Lei de Moisés dada pelo SENHOR, o Deus de Israel. O rei lhe concedera tudo o que ele tinha pedido, pois a mão do SENHOR, o seu Deus, estava sobre ele.

7 Alguns dos israelitas, inclusive sacerdotes, levitas, cantores, porteiros e servidores do templo, também foram para Jerusalém no sétimo ano do reinado de Artaxerxes.

8 Esdras chegou a Jerusalém no quinto mês do sétimo ano desse reinado.

9 No primeiro dia do primeiro mês ele saiu da Babilônia e chegou a Jerusalém no primeiro dia do quinto mês, porque a boa mão de seu Deus estava sobre ele.