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Ezra 10:11

Now, therefore, make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, acknowledging their wrong, and do His pleasure, in bringing forth fruits meet for repentance; and separate yourselves from the people of the land and from the strange wives. It was a radical measure, but one which would prove immediately effective in cleansing Israel from defilement.

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See also Ezra 10:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 11. _MAKE CONFESSION_] Acknowledge your sins before God, with deep compunction of heart, and the fullest resolution to forsake them....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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._ Nehemiah 12:13. AND WHEN HE CAME THITHER: read, and he lo...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Ezra's address to the people: (1) the offence stated; (2) the reform commanded, consisting of (_a_) public confession, (_b_) practical amendment....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers_ R.V. MAKE CONFESSION (marg. Or, _give thanks) unto the Lord, the God of your fathers_. -Make confession". Literally -give thanksgiving or praise". T...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. The decision is accepted by all, in the assembly. TEXT, EZRA 10:9-15 9 So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 FROM THE STRANGE WIVES._ No JFB commentary on these ver...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE DIVORCED 3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1, which required a bill of divorcement....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (7-17) Conference of the people and commission to try individual cases. (8) FORFEITED. — This, as also what precedes and what follows, again recalls the express commission of Ezra 7. But “according to...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עַתָּ֗ה תְּנ֥וּ תֹודָ֛ה לַ יהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽי

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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 day, and it would seem that they became conscious o...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Now therefore (h) make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives. (h) Read (Joshua 7:19)....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Confession. Septuagint, "give praise;" which is done by repentance and virtue. (Menochius) --- Confess your faults, and submit to the justice of God, Josue vii. 19. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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 consented unto the thing. Oh! how delightful is it, when g...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOW THEREFORE MAKE CONFESSION TO THE LORD GOD OF YOUR FATHERS,.... Of their sin, and express their detestation of it, and repentance for it: AND DO HIS PLEASURE; obey his will, and particularly in th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 from the strange wives. Ver. 11. _Now therefore make con...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Make confession unto the Lord; and do his pleasure_ You have sinfully pleased yourselves, now please God, by your obedience to his command. _And separate yourselves from your strange wives_ There bei...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [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...

  • Leslie 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 men, women and children to gather together before Hi...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-14 There is hope concerning people, when they are convinced, not only that it is good to part with their sins, but that it is necessary; we must do it, or we are undone. So rich is the mercy, and s...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DO HIS PLEASURE; you have sinfully pleased yourselves, now please God by your obedience to his command....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezra 10:11 make H5414 (H8798) confession H8426 LORD H3068 God H430 fathers H1 do H6213 (H8798) will...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Ezra 10:7 ‘And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem,' Ezra having retired to pray, the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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. Ezra 10:9. _It was the ninth month,_ the depth of wint...

  • 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 that it produced. When the people saw that he was so...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZRA 10:1 The People Agree to Dissolve the Marriages. Ezra prays, and the people confess their sin (vv. Ezra 10:1). They agree to do God’s will (vv. Ezra 1

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 10:11 MAKE CONFESSION could also be translated in other contexts as “give thanks or praise” (compare Joshua 7:19 and esv footno

  • The 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). (ii.) Ezra’s fast because of the people’s sin (Ezra 10:6)....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 2:12; 1 John 1:7; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Colossians 1:10;...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    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...

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