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Ezra 8:18

The Pulpit Commentary on Ezra 8:18

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

By the good hand of our God upon us. This is Ezra's usual mode of acknowledging the good providence and favour of Almighty God (see , , ; and ). Similar expressions occur also in Nehemiah (, ), but not elsewhere in Scripture.

A man of understanding. In the Hebrew Ish-sekel, which some take for a proper name, but without any necessity. No such name is known to have existed; and the real name of "the man of understanding" appears to have been "Sherebiah," who is mentioned more than once in Nehemiah (; , ) as a chief Levite.

And Sherebiah should be simply "Sherebiah." The preposition "and" (Hebrew ) ן has been inserted by a careless copyist.

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