Ezra 10:19

gave their hands. Hebrew idiom for giving their word. Compare 2 Kings 10:15.

being guilty. Compare Leviticus 5:1.

Related Commentaries of Ezra 10:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare with the list in Ezra 2 . Ezra 10:19 They gave their hands - i. e., “solemnly pledged themselves” (compare the marginal references...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And they gave (l) their hands that they would put away their wives; and [being] guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their trespass. (l) As...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

A List of those who had Married Foreign Wives. These include seventeen priests, together with Levites, singers, and doorkeepers, and also laymen.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass. They gave t...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 19. They gave their hands — See 2 Kings 10:15 . Houbigant renders the last clause, and who had offended, gave one ram of the flock for th...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass. They ga...
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.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(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...
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 b...
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 be...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ver. 19-43. And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives ,.... They proposed to do it, and actually did it: and being guilty ; o...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and [being] guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their trespass. Ver. 19....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Among the sons of the priests there were found , &c. No wonder the people broke the law, when so many of those who were supposed to understand i...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They gave their hand, i.e. they covenanted or swore by giving their hand; which was the usual gesture in those cases; of which see Leviticus 6:2...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
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...
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....
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION REPENTANCE OF THE PEOPLE , AND COVENANT SWORN TO , ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF SHECHANIAH ( Ezra 10:1-15 ). Whil...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Catalog of Men who had taken Strange Wives
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives, pledging themselves most solemnly by giving their right hand; and being guilty, they...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 29:24 ; 2 Chronicles 30:8 ; 2 Kings 10:15 ; Galatians 2:9 ; Lamentations 5:6 ; Leviticus 5:15 ; Leviticus 5:16 ; Leviticus 6:4 ;...

¹⁹ And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.

Related Commentaries of Ezra 10:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezra 10:19