Ezra 10:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives. ”

• Ezra 10:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Now therefore (h) make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives. (h) Read ( Joshua 7:19 ).

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• Ezra 10:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Jews Assemble in Jerusalem; Officers are Appointed from each City to See that the Foreign Wives are Put away. Ezra 10:6 . Jehohanan: cf. Nehemiah 12:13 . and when he came thither: read,...

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• Ezra 10:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

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• Ezra 10:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives. Make confession - Acknowledge yo...

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• Ezra 10:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives. No JFB commentary on the...

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• Ezra 10:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Foreign Wives are Divorced 3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1-2 , which required a bill of divorcement.

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• Ezra 10:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (7-17) Conference of the people and commission to try individual cases. (8) Forfeited. — This, as also what precedes and what follows, again recalls the express commission of Ezra 7 . But “accordi...

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• Ezra 10:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE HOME SACRIFICED TO THE CHURCH Ezra 10:1-44 EZRA'S narrative, written in the first person, ceases with his prayer, the conclusion of which brings us to the end of the ninth chapter of our Bo...

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• Ezra 10:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Putting Away Strange Marriages Ezra 10:1-19 The people seem to have been more impressed by Ezra's intense grief of soul than they could have been by his severest condemnation. Is not this the s...

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• Ezra 10:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The sincerity and passion of Ezra's vicarious repentance produced immediate results. The people had gathered about him through the long hours of the day, and it would seem that they became conscious...

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• Ezra 10:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  No doubt the hand of the Lord was upon them, and with them, so that grace triumphed over nature, that all the people, as the heart of one man consented unto the thing. Oh! how delightful is it, when...

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• Ezra 10:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Now therefore make confession to the Lord God of your fathers ,.... Of their sin, and express their detestation of it, and repentance for it: and do his pleasure ; obey his will, and particularly...

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• Ezra 10:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives. Ver. 11. Now therefore make c...

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• Ezra 10:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Make confession unto the Lord; and do his pleasure You have sinfully pleased yourselves, now please God, by your obedience to his command. And separate yourselves from your strange wives There be...

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• Ezra 10:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ACTION FOLLOWING PRAYER (vv. 1-17) Ezra expected an answer to his prayer, and God provided the answer immediately in moving a very huge number of men, women and children to gather together before...

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• Ezra 10:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned be...

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• Ezra 10:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Do his pleasure; you have sinfully pleased yourselves, now please God by your obedience to his command.

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• Ezra 10:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Ezra 10:7 ‘And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem,' Ezra having retired to pray,...

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• Ezra 10:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] In this chapter we have the account of—(i.) Shechaniah’s proposal to put away the strange wives ( Ezra 10:1-5 ). (ii.) Ezra’s fast because of the people’s sin ( Ezra...

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• Ezra 10:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezra 10:6 . When he came. It should read, till he came thither, as appears from chap. Ezra 9:4 , and at a late hour after the evening devotion. Ezra 10:9 . It was the ninth month, the depth...

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• Ezra 10:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Now when Ezra had prayed. Prayer and confession The former chapter did set down the humiliation of Ezra; this demonstrates the fruit and effect that it produced. When the people saw that he was...

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• Ezra 10:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION REPENTANCE OF THE PEOPLE , AND COVENANT SWORN TO , ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF SHECHANIAH ( Ezra 10:1-15 ). While Ezra was uttering his prayer aloud, upon his kne...

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• Ezra 10:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Ezra's Reform Measures Adopted

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• Ezra 10:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 2:12-14 ; 1 John 1:7-9 ; 2 Corinthians 6:17 ; Colossians 1:10 ; Deuteronomy 7:3 ; Deuteronomy 7:4 ; Ezra 9:1 ; Hebrews 13:21 ; Isaiah 1:16-18 ; Isaiah 56:4 ; Jeremiah 3:13 ;...

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