Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezra 2:61

61 And of the children of the Priests: the children of Habajah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai: (which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name .)

To wit, Barzillai. Which name he preferred before that of his own Family, accounting it, as it seems, a greater Honour to be allied to so noble a Family than to be a Priest of the Lord. But by this ambition he deprived himself of the honour and advantage of the Priesthood, as it is here noted, v. [illegible: 1+ letters]2.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word]. 17.