Ezra 10:3; Ezra 10:4; Nehemiah 13:23; Psalms 78:37; Psalms 78:57
The Jews Assemble in Jerusalem; Officers are Appointed from each City to See that the Foreign Wives are Put away. Ezra 10:6 . Jehohanan: cf. N...
As thou hast said . according to thy words. Hebrew margin reads "word".
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do. As thou hast said, so must we do - They all resolved...
Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and fr...
The Foreign Wives are Divorced 3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1-2 , which required a bill of divorcement.
(7-17) Conference of the people and commission to try individual cases. (8) Forfeited. — This, as also what precedes and what follows, again recall...
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...
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...
The sincerity and passion of Ezra's vicarious repentance produced immediate results. The people had gathered about him through the long hours of the...
No doubt the hand of the Lord was upon them, and with them, so that grace triumphed over nature, that all the people, as the heart of one man consent...
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice ,.... That they might be heard, and to show that they were willing and ready to comply...
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do. Ver. 12. Then all the congregation answered and s...
Make confession unto the Lord; and do his pleasure You have sinfully pleased yourselves, now please God, by your obedience to his command. And sep...
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...
6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he di...
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Ezra 10:7 ‘And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves toge...
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....
Now when Ezra had prayed. Prayer and confession The former chapter did set down the humiliation of Ezra; this demonstrates the fruit and effect...
EXPOSITION REPENTANCE OF THE PEOPLE , AND COVENANT SWORN TO , ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF SHECHANIAH ( Ezra 10:1-15 ). Whil...
Ezra's Reform Measures Adopted
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, their resolution firmly and unhesitatingly expressed, As thou hast said, so must we d...
12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.