We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at their head.
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We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at their head.
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We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
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We asked them their names also, to announce to thee, that we might write the names of the men that were at the head of them.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Ezr 5:10 We asked their names also, to certify…
Ezr 5:10 We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that [were] the chief of them.
Ver. 10. We asked their names also] See Ezr 5:4.
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That were the chief of them] For the rude multitude follow as they are led. And as in a beast, the whole body goeth after the head, so do most people after their rulers and ringleaders; hence that severity of God, Num 25:4, "Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun."
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain We asked their names also,.... The names of the…
We asked their names also,.... The names of the elders, those that set men about this work:
to certify that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them; take the names of them in writing, that they might with certainty acquaint the king who they were, and that if it was necessary they might be called to an account for what they were doing.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. We asked their names] R.V. we asked them…
10. We asked their names] R.V. we asked them their names. So the Aramaic. For the names of the Elders, cf. Ezr_2:2.
the chief of them] R.V. at the head of them. Literally ‘at or in the heads of them’. The R.V. renders as if the word was in the singular; cf. 2Ch_20:27, ‘Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them’, (lit. at their head). But the rendering ‘that were their heads’ would be equally correct, and would account for the use of the plural.
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