Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon . . . which brought us up hither—A very interesting explanation of this passage has been recently obtained from the Assyrian sculptures. On a large cylinder, deposited in the British Museum, there is inscribed a long and perfect copy of the annals of Esar-haddon, in which the details are given of a large deportation of Israelites from Palestine, and a consequent settlement of Babylonian colonists in their place. It is a striking confirmation of the statement made in this passage. Those Assyrian settlers intermarried with the remnant of Israelite women, and their descendants, a mongrel race, went under the name of Samaritans. Though originally idolaters, they were instructed in the knowledge of God, so that they could say, "We seek your God"; but they served Him in a superstitious way of their own (see on II Kings 17:26-34, II Kings 17:41).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezra 4:2:
Ezra 4:1
Psalms 119:69-70
Isaiah 7:8
Isaiah 37:38
Jeremiah 50:17
Ezekiel 23:9
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