Ezra 6:22 - Barnes' Notes

Ezra 6:22

20 For the priests and the Levites had ^apurified themselves; all of them were ritually clean. And they ^bslaughtered the Passover lambs for all the descendants of the captivity, for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

21 Then the children of Israel who had returned from the captivity ate together with all who had separated themselves from the ^afilth of the nations of the land in order to seek the Lord God of Israel.

22 And they kept the ^aFeast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy; for the Lord made them joyful, and ^bturned the heart ^cof the king of Assyria toward them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

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Ezra 6:22

The king of Assyria - i. e., Darius. Assyria had so long been the great monarchy of western Asia that the sacred writers continue the title to those who had inherited the old Assyrian power, as first to the Babylonians II Kings 23:29, and secondly to the Persians. With similar inexactness we find Herodotus calling Cyrus "king of the Medes."

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Ezra 6:22:

Nehemiah 12:47
Nehemiah 13:6
Isaiah 11:11
Zechariah 10:10

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