Ezra 10:5

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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 nec...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the chief priests . the princes of the priests. Compare 2 Chronicles 36:14 . the Levites. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "an...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware. And th...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, a...
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.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The chief priests] RV 'the chiefs of the priests': see 2 Chronicles 36:14 .
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 publi...
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

Who but must admire the holy zeal of Ezra? What a wonderful attempt it must have been? What a crucifixion of the flesh with its affections and lusts?...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then arose Ezra ,.... From the ground where he lay: and made the chief priests, and the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do acco...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware. Ver....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Arise, for this matter belongeth unto thee Who hast a perfect knowledge of the law, and full power from the king of Persia to see every thing done...
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

Ezra's Reformation. B. C. 456. 1 Now w...
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...
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 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

Ezra's Reform Measures Adopted
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Then arose Ezra and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel to swear that they should do according to this word, he obligated them by a s...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezra 10:3 ; Matthew 26:63 ; Nehemiah 10:29 ; Nehemiah 13:25 ; Nehemiah 5:12 ; Proverbs 1:5 ; Proverbs 15:23 ; Proverbs 25:11 ; Proverbs 25:1...

⁵ Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.

Related Commentaries of Ezra 10:5

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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

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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezra 10:5