Ezra 10:17
The business occupied the commission full two months. In some cases, it may be presumed, they had to summon persons before them who did not wish to...
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...
the first day of the first month. See note on Genesis 8:13 . Ezra's last date. The commission, therefore, sat for eighty-eight days.
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month. The first day of the first month - So they we...
And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of th...
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...
The Holy Ghost hath thought proper to be particular in stating the precise time this great reform took to make it effectual and complete. Mark, Reade...
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives ,.... Finished their inquiry and examination of them: by the first day of the f...
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month. Ver. 17. By the first day of the first mon...
Ezra the priest, &c., were separated, and sat down Sequestered themselves from all other business, and gave themselves wholly to this. They ma...
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...
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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...
first month That is, April.
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...
But the people are many. The reformation effected I. notwith standing difficulties. 1. The greatness of the undertaking. 2. The inclemenc...
EXPOSITION REPENTANCE OF THE PEOPLE , AND COVENANT SWORN TO , ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF SHECHANIAH ( Ezra 10:1-15 ). Whil...
Ezra's Reform Measures Adopted
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month. The sessions thus lasted, in all, very nearly...
17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.