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Compare with the list in Ezra 2.
Ezra 10:19
THEY GAVE THEIR HANDS - i. e., “solemnly pledged themselves”
(compare the marginal references).
Ezra 10:44...
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CHAPTER 10
_ 1. The effect of Ezra's prayer on the people (Ezra 10:1)_
2. Ezra summons an assembly (Ezra 10:5)
3. The gathering, confession and the evil judged (Ezra 10:9)
4. The register of those...
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A LIST OF THOSE WHO HAD MARRIED FOREIGN WIVES. These include seventeen
priests, together with Levites, singers, and doorkeepers, and also
laymen....
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THE SONS OF JOSHUA. Who had come up with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:2). There
were 973 priests of that house (Ezra 2:36). There were found guilty
seventeen priests, ten Levites singers and sorters, and eighty...
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Priests
18. _that had taken strange wives_ R.V. THAT HAD MARRIED STRANGE
WOMEN: the R.V. puts a colon after -women", and a comma after
-brethren". The -Jeshua the son of Jozadak" here mentioned is cle...
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The List of those who -had married strange women"
The record of the names was probably one of the documents officially
preserved. The publicity of such a list was in itself a punishment to
the offend...
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4. The decision is carried out.
TEXT, EZRA 10:16-19
16
But the exiles did so. And Ezra the priest selected men who were heads
of fathers-' households for each of their fathers-' households, all of...
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Of the guilty there were 17 priests, 10 Levites, singers and porters,
and 86 laymen, making a total of 113....
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THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE DIVORCED
3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1, which required a bill
of divorcement....
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THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM
EZRA
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 10
V1 Ezra prayed and he confessed. He wept and he threw himself onto
the ground in front of the house of God. As he was doing these thin...
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(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 their distinct
pledge, and offered each a special tr...
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וַ יִּמָּצֵא֙ מִ בְּנֵ֣י הַ
כֹּהֲנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥
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THE HOME SACRIFICED TO THE CHURCH
Ezra 10:1
EZRA'S narrative, written in the first person, ceases with his prayer,
the conclusion of which brings us to the end of the ninth chapter of
our Book of Ezr...
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PUTTING AWAY STRANGE MARRIAGES
Ezra 10:1
The people seem to have been more impressed by Ezra's intense grief of
soul than they could have been by his severest condemnation. Is not
this the secret of...
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The sincerity and passion of Ezra's vicarious repentance produced
immediate results. The people had gathered about him through the long
hours of the day, and it would seem that they became conscious o...
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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 of God in Christ, while it fully sets forth also hi...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9 AND 10.
Alas! as soon as he can look into these things, he finds the law
already broken, evil already come in. The people of Israel had not
kept themselves...
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AND AMONG THE SONS OF THE PRIESTS THERE WERE FOUND THAT HAD TAKEN
STRANGE WIVES,.... So that it need not be wondered at that this evil
should spread among the people, when those who understood the law...
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And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken
strange wives: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and
his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah....
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_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 it best, namely, the priests, yea, some of the sons of t...
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[ORDER TAKEN FOR STRANGE MARIAGES.]
1 Shechaniah encourageth Ezra to reforme the strange mariages.
6 Ezra mourning, assembleth the people.
9 The people at the exhortation of Ezra, repent and promis...
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CATALOG OF MEN WHO HAD TAKEN STRANGE WIVES...
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And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken
strange wives; namely, of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and
his brethren: Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah....
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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 men, women and children to
gather together before Hi...
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15-44 The best reformers can but do their endeavour; when the
Redeemer himself shall come to Zion, he shall effectually turn away
ungodliness from Jacob. And when sin is repented of and forsaken, God...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Ezra 10:18 sons H1121 priests H3548 taken H3427 (H8689) pagan H5237
wives H802 found H4672 (H8735) sons...
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THE NAMES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN MARRYING IDOLATROUS FOREIGN WOMEN (EZRA
10:18).
Ezra then prepared for Artaxerxes, the king of Persia, a list of those
with whom he had had to deal. We can compare how t...
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CONTENTS: Separation restored. Strange wives surrendered.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezra, Shecaniah, Jonanan.
CONCLUSION: There is hope concerning people when they are convinced
not only that it is good to p...
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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.
Ezra 10:9. _It was the ninth month,_ the depth of wint...
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_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 purpose is this catalogue of names inserted here?
I....
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_Now when Ezra had prayed._
PRAYER AND CONFESSION
The former chapter did set down the humiliation of Ezra; this
demonstrates the fruit and effect that it produced. When the people
saw that he was so...
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EZRA 10:18 List of Those Who Were Implicated. The list of around a
hundred names may suggest a more limited problem than one might have
expected. In that case, the severe reaction of Ezra and the comm...
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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). (ii.) Ezra’s fast because of the people’s sin (Ezra 10:6)....
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EXPOSITION
REPENTANCE OF THE PEOPLE, AND COVENANT SWORN TO, ON THE RECOMMENDATION
OF SHECHANIAH (Ezra 10:1). While Ezra was uttering his prayer aloud,
upon his knees, in f
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But here a very stringent and harsh measure was taken. They put away
all of these wives, and they said unto him with a loud voice,
As thou hast said, so must we do (Ezra 10:12).
They realized that it...
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1 Chronicles 6:14; 1 Chronicles 6:15; 1 Samuel 2:22; 1 Timothy 3:11;...
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Why did God command Israelite men to put away their unbelieving wives,
but Paul said not to do so?
PROBLEM: Ezra made all the returning Israelites put away their
“pagan wives” because they were “addin...