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Verse Ezra 10:2. _SHECHANIAH THE SON OF JEHIEL_] He speaks here in
the name of the people, not acknowledging _himself_ culpable, for he
is not in the following list. It is in the same form of speech...
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Jehiel was one of those who had taken an idolatrous wife Ezra 10:26;
and Shechaniah had therefore had the evil brought home to him....
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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 PEOPLE SWEAR TO PUT AWAY THEIR FOREIGN WIVES. The narrative now
proceeds in the third person.
Ezra 10:2. Shecaniah: a common name; not necessarily identical with
the person of this name referred t...
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THE SONS OF ELAM. Compare Ezra 10:26.
ANSWERED AND SAID.. Hebrew idiom, by which the first verb "answered"
must be rendered according to the context. Here. "confessed and said".
TRESPASSED. acted tr...
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_And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel_, one _of the sons of Elam_ R.V.
SHECANIAH. A Jehiel is mentioned in Ezra 10:26 as one -of the sons of
Elam" that had married -strange women". It is hardly likely tha...
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TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT
D. The community is cleansed, and a list of the offenders is given.
1.
A decision is reached by those who heard Ezra pray.
TEXT, EZRA 10:1-4
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Now while Ezra was p...
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_AND SHECHANIAH THE SON OF JEHIEL, ONE OF THE SONS OF ELAM, ANSWERED
AND SAID UNTO EZRA, WE HAVE TRESPASSED AGAINST OUR GOD, AND HAVE TAKEN
STRANGE WIVES OF THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND: YET NOW THERE IS HO...
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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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X.
(1-6) The covenant of repentance and amendment. Here the narrative
assumes another form; and, in accordance with the solemnity of a great
public transaction, Ezra adopts the third person.
(1) BEFO...
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וַ יַּעַן֩ שְׁכַנְיָ֨ה בֶן ־יְחִיאֵ֜ל
מִ בְּנ
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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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And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, [one] of the sons of Elam, answered
and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken
strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is ...
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_Sechenias. 3 Esdras calls him "Jechoias." See chap. viii. 5. The name
of Sechenias is not found among the transgressors; (ver. 20.) but that
of Jehiel is, ver. 26. It seems, however, that the former...
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No doubt in the evil already induced from these improper connections,
the Holy Ghost had guarded the stock of David from any evil
consequences in this grand matter. But it was high time that Israel
sh...
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_A GRIEVOUS TRESPASS_
‘We have trespassed against our God.’
Ezra 10:2
I. IT WAS, WITHOUT DOUBT, A VERY GRIEVOUS SIN.—The people had acted
in direct violation of the express commandment of God, and...
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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 SHECHANIAH THE SON OF JEHIEL, ONE OF THE SONS OF ELAM, ANSWERED
AND SAID UNTO EZRA,.... This man seems to be one of those that now
came with Ezra from Babylon, see Ezra 8:3,
WE HAVE TRESPASSED AG...
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And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, [one] of the sons of Elam, answered
and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken
strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is h...
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_We have trespassed against our God_ He says _we_, in the name of the
people, and their several families, and his own among the rest. For
this man's name is not in the following catalogue, but there w...
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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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And Shechaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the Sons of Elam, evidently
a man of some importance, ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO EZRA, WE HAVE
TRESPASSED AGAINST OUR GOD, acting unfaithfully and without loyalty...
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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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1-5 Shechaniah owned the national guilt. The case is sad, but it is
not desperate; the disease threatening, but not incurable. Now that
the people begin to lament, a spirit of repentance seems to be...
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He saith WE, either,
1. Because he was guilty in this matter. Or rather,
2. In the name of the people, and their several families, and his own
amongst the rest. For this man's name is not in the foll...
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Ezra 10:2 Shechaniah H7935 son H1121 Jehiel H3171 sons H1121 Elam
H5867 up H6030 (H8799) said H559 ...
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SHECANIAH CONFESSES TO EZRA THE GUILT OF THOSE WHO HAVE TAKEN
IDOLATROUS FOREIGN WIVES AND CONFIRMS THEIR AGREEMENT TO THE PLAN PUT
FORWARD BY EZRA AND THOSE WHO TREMBLE AT GOD'S WORD (EZRA 10:1).
A g...
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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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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 John 1:7; Exodus 34:12; Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7; Ezra 10:26;...
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We — He saith, we, in the name of the people, and their several
families, and his own amongst the rest. For this man's name is not in
the following catalogue, but there we have his father, Jehiel, and...