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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ezra 10:14

Our rulers — Let the great council, called the Sanhedrim, be settled, and meet to determine of all particular causes. Judges — Who are best able to inform the great council of the quality of the persons, and all matters of fact and circumstances. Until — Until the thing be done, and God's wrath thereby removed.

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  • 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

    RULERS. princes. FOR. Hebrew. _'ad =_ "until", as in the previous clause. Translate and supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6) thus: "until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The resolution of the general assembly epitomised. A general assent to Ezra's proposal. The time of the year and the magnitude of the task make it necessary to appoint a commission to carry it into ex...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A commission recommended. _Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand_ R.V. LET NOW OUR PRINCES BE APPOINTED (marg. Heb. _stand_) FOR ALL THE CONGREGATION. The A.V. fails to give the idea of the...

  • 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

    _LET NOW OUR RULERS OF ALL THE CONGREGATION STAND, AND LET ALL THEM WHICH HAVE TAKEN STRANGE WIVES IN OUR CITIES COME AT APPOINTED TIMES, AND WITH THEM THE ELDERS OF EVERY CITY, AND THE JUDGES THEREOF...

  • 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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    LET NOW OUR RULERS.. STAND] i.e. as a committee to see into the question of the divorces....

  • 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

    יַֽעֲמְדוּ ־נָ֣א שָׂ֠רֵינוּ לְֽ כָל ־הַ קָּהָ

  • 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

    Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, (i) and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges ther...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Cities. It is not clear whether the rulers went to the different cities, or the principal men of each gave information, and caused the guilty to appear before Esdras, at Jerusalem. (Haydock)_...

  • 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

    LET NOW OUR RULERS OF ALL THE CONGREGATIONS STAND,.... Let the great sanhedrim, or court of judicature at Jerusalem, be fixed and continued, and others: AND LET ALL THEM WHICH HAVE TAKEN STRANGE WIVE...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof,...

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

    _Let now our rulers stand_ They propose that the rulers in Jerusalem should meet, to take cognizance of this matter, and to judge and determine in all particular cases: and that, at appointed times, t...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, as a commission to adjust the entire affair, AND LET ALL THEM WHICH HAVE TAKEN STRANGE WIVES IN OUR CITIES COME AT APPOINTED TIMES, they were to be no...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Ezra's Reform Measures Adopted...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FOR THIS MATTER: Or, till this matter be dispatched...

  • 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

    LET OUR RULERS OF ALL THE CONGREGATION STAND; let the great council, called the _Sanhedrim_, be settled, and meet to judge and determine of all particular causes. THEM WHICH HAVE TAKEN STRANGE WIVES,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezra 10:14 leaders H8269 assembly H6951 stand H5975 (H8799) cities H5892 taken H3427 (H8689) pagan H5237 wives...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _But the people are many._ THE REFORMATION EFFECTED I. notwith standing difficulties. 1. The greatness of the undertaking. 2. The inclemency of the weather. Learn: To eradicate sin is a task of th...

  • 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 10:14 WRATH OF OUR GOD. See note on v. 10. ⇐...

  • 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

    2 Chronicles 19:5; 2 Chronicles 29:10; 2 Chronicles 30:8; Deuteronomy 13:17;...

  • 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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