No text from Poole on this verse.
Compare with the list in Ezra 2 . Ezra 10:19 They gave their hands - i. e., “solemnly pledged themselves” (compare the marginal references...
A List of those who had Married Foreign Wives. These include seventeen priests, together with Levites, singers, and doorkeepers, and also laymen.
Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
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...
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...
The sincerity and passion of Ezra's vicarious repentance produced immediate results. The people had gathered about him through the long hours of the...
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...
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...
15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite...
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...
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 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....
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...
EXPOSITION REPENTANCE OF THE PEOPLE , AND COVENANT SWORN TO , ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF SHECHANIAH ( Ezra 10:1-15 ). Whil...
Catalog of Men who had taken Strange Wives
1 Chronicles 3:24 ; Ezra 8:33
36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,