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A Mixed Heritage
Commentators explain that the people making this offer were the Samaritans. They were a mixed-race group whose ancestors had been settled in the land by the Assyrian king Esar-haddon over 130 years earlier. They were not ethnically Jewish but a blend of various peoples from the Assyrian empire, a fact they themselves acknowledge.
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Albert Barnes
On Ezra 4:2
18th Century
Theologian
Compare (2 Kings 17:24–28) notes.
Since the days - Esarhaddon reigned from 681-668 B.C. Thus, the Samaritans speak of wha…
Charles Ellicott
On Ezra 4:2
19th Century
Bishop
As you do. —They feared the Lord, and worshipped their own gods (2 Kings 17:33): thus they came either in the…
John Gill
On Ezra 4:2
17th Century
Pastor
Then they came to Zerubbabel, and the chief of the fathers ,
&c.] These they addressed, as knowing that if they coul…
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Matthew Henry
On Ezra 4:1–5
17th Century
Minister
Every attempt to revive true religion will stir up the opposition of Satan, and of those in whom he works. The adversaries were the Samaritans, who…