“ Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau, ”
Compare with the list in Ezra 2 . Ezra 10:19 They gave their hands - i. e., “solemnly pledged themselves” (compare the marginal references). Ezra 10:44 The guilty persons, it would s...
A List of those who had Married Foreign Wives. These include seventeen priests, together with Levites, singers, and doorkeepers, and also laymen.
Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,
The Foreign Wives are Divorced 3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1-2 , which required a bill of divorcement.
(18-44) List of the transgressors. (19) They gave their hands. — The four members of the high priest’s family were peculiarly dealt with. They gave their distinct pledge, and offered each a special...
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...
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...
Observe, Reader, how the names of the offenders are recorded. No doubt both in judgment and in mercy. How fully doth it show forth the covenant love of God in Christ, while it fully sets forth also h...
Ezra 10:19 .
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...
15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. 16 And the children of the captivit...
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The Names Of Those Involved In Marrying Idolatrous Foreign Women ( Ezra 10:18-44 ). Ezra then prepared for Artaxerxes, the king of Persia, a list of those with whom he had had to deal. We can comp...
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...
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...
And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua. The list of offenders For what purpose is this catalogue of names inserted here?...
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...
Catalog of Men who had taken Strange Wives
Ezra 10:30 ; Ezra 10:33