Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezra 2:20
The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.
20. Gibbar ] Neh 7:25 ‘Gibeon’ (for which our text is probably an early error), the famous scene of Joshua’s victory (Joshua , 10), of the battle between David’s and Ishbosheth’s men (2 Samuel 2), of Joab’s murder of Amasa (2Sa 20:8), the abode of the tabernacle (1Ki 3:4; 1Ch 16:39 ; 1Ch 21:29; 2Ch 1:3), the high-place at which the Lord appeared unto Solomon in a dream (1Ki 3:4).
The false prophet Hananiah (Jer 28:1) came from Gibeon. The modern ‘El-Jib,’ distant about 5 miles N.W. from Jerusalem, in the territory of Benjamin.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
20 35. Names of towns and places. It is possible that the register dealt first with the dwellers in Jerusalem. The inhabitants of the towns and places nearest to Jerusalem and best known are mentioned next: last of all, the inhabitants of the less known or more remote places. The numbers are much smaller than those of the households (3 19).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
[See comments on Ezr 2:3].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Gibbar: Neh 7:25, Gibeon
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ezr 2:20-21. The children of Gibbar Or, as it is in Neh 7:25, of Gibeon, these being the citizens of that city. For this is not the name of a man, but of a place; and the same may be said of several names that follow. The children of Beth-lehem The remainders of the inhabitants of that city: so little was Beth-lehem among the thousands of Judah! Yet thence must the Messiah arise. Netophah and Anathoth also, in the next two verses, were towns, not men.