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Verse 11. _MAKE CONFESSION_] Acknowledge your sins before God, with
deep compunction of heart, and the fullest resolution to forsake them....
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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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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...
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THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
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Ezra's address to the people: (1) the offence stated; (2) the reform
commanded, consisting of (_a_) public confession, (_b_) practical
amendment....
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_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...
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3. The decision is accepted by all, in the assembly.
TEXT, EZRA 10:9-15
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So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the
three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth...
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_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...
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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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(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...
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וְ עַתָּ֗ה תְּנ֥וּ תֹודָ֛ה לַ יהוָ֥ה
אֱלֹהֵֽי
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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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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)....
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_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)_...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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Ezra's Reform Measures Adopted...
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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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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...
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Ezra 10:11 make H5414 (H8798) confession H8426 LORD H3068 God H430
fathers H1 do H6213 (H8798) will...
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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
together to Jerusalem,'
Ezra having retired to pray, the...
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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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_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 10:1 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
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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
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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 Corinthians 2:12; 1 John 1:7; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Colossians 1:10;...
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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...