Matthew Poole and continuators on Nehemiah 8:2

2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation, both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding , upon the first day of the seventh month.

Who came 12 or 13 years before Nehemiah to Ierusalem; and either carried there: or went back to Babylon, being forced to do so by the Kings command, or indispensable occasions, and then returned again with Nehemiah.

i. e. And such children as were come to years of understanding.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 span].