Ezra 10:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. ”

• Ezra 10:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Jehiel was one of those who had taken an idolatrous wife Ezra 10:26 ; and Shechaniah had therefore had the evil brought home to him.

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• Ezra 10:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, [one] of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is...

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• Ezra 10:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The People Swear to Put away their Foreign Wives. The narrative now proceeds in the third person. Ezra 10:2 . Shecaniah: a common name; not necessarily identical with the person of this name re...

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• Ezra 10:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the sons of Elam. Compare Ezra 10:26 . answered and said. . Hebrew idiom, by which the first verb "answered" must be rendered according to the context. Here. "confessed and said". trespassed ....

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• Ezra 10:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is...

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• Ezra 10:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there i...

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• Ezra 10:2 - 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 10:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  X. (1-6) The covenant of repentance and amendment. Here the narrative assumes another form; and, in accordance with the solemnity of a great public transaction, Ezra adopts the third person. (1)...

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• Ezra 10:2 - 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 10:2 - 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 10:2 - 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 10:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  No doubt in the evil already induced from these improper connections, the Holy Ghost had guarded the stock of David from any evil consequences in this grand matter. But it was high time that Israel s...

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• Ezra 10:2 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  A GRIEVOUS TRESPASS ‘We have trespassed against our God.’ Ezra 10:2 I. It was, without doubt, a very grievous sin. —The people had acted in direct violation of the express commandment of Go...

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• Ezra 10:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra ,.... This man seems to be one of those that now came with Ezra from Babylon, see Ezra 8:3 , we have trespas...

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• Ezra 10:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, [one] of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is...

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• Ezra 10:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  We have trespassed against our God He says we , in the name of the people, and their several families, and his own among the rest. For this man's name is not in the following catalogue, but there...

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• Ezra 10:2 - 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 10:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Ezra's Reformation. B. C. 456.       1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, we...

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• Ezra 10:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He saith we, either, 1. Because he was guilty in this matter. Or rather, 2. In the name of the people, and their several families, and his own amongst the rest. For this man's name is not in th...

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• Ezra 10:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Shecaniah Confesses To Ezra The Guilt Of Those Who Have Taken Idolatrous Foreign Wives And Confirms Their Agreement To The Plan Put Forward By Ezra And Those Who Tremble At God's Word ( Ezra 10:1-5...

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• Ezra 10:2 - 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 10:2 - 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 10:2 - 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 10:2 - 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 10:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Ezra's Reform Measures Adopted

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• Ezra 10:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 1:7-9 ; Exodus 34:12 ; Exodus 34:6 ; Exodus 34:7 ; Ezra 10:26 ; Ezra 2:31 ; Ezra 2:7 ; Isaiah 55:6 ; Isaiah 55:7 ; James 2:9 ; Jeremiah 3:12 ; Jeremiah 3:13 ; Nehemiah 13:27 ; Ne...

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• Ezra 10:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  We — He saith, we, in the name of the people, and their several families, and his own amongst the rest. For this man's name is not in the following catalogue, but there we have his father, Jehiel,...

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