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CHAPTER 9
_ 1. Ezra's astonishment and grief (Ezra 9:1)_
2. Ezra's confession and prayer (Ezra 9:5)
Ezra 9:1. When all these things had been done (that are related in
chapter 8:33-36) Ezra was confr...
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EZRA'S CONFESSION.
Ezra 9:5. at the evening Oblation: therefore in the presence of the
assembled worshippers.
Ezra 9:7. from the days of our fathers: _i.e._ from the times of the
patriarchs onwards....
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NOR SEEK THEIR PEACE. Reference to Pentateuch: the very words of
Deuteronomy 23:6.
CHILDREN. sons....
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_Now therefore give not_, &c. This sentence reproduces the substance
of Deuteronomy 7:3 -Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy
daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter sh...
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Ezra's Prayer
Ezra's prayer, as a confession of national sin, should be compared
with the prayer of the Levites (Nehemiah 9:6-38), and more especially
with the prayer of Daniel (Daniel 9:4-19). As in...
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Ezra's Confession
5. _And at the evening sacrifice_ R.V. AND AT THE EVENING OBLATION,
i.e. at the time of its being offered.
_I arose up from my heaviness_ R.V. I AROSE UP FROM MY HUMILIATION.
Marg....
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2. Ezra's prayer is set down for us.
TEXT, EZRA 9:6-15
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and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face
to Thee, my God, for our iniquities have risen above our heads and our...
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EZRA'S INDIGNATION AT INTERMARRIAGES WITH THE HEATHEN
1. The Canaanites, etc.] In the Law it was only with the various
Canaanite nations that marriage was altogether forbidden (Exodus
34:12; Deuterono...
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THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM
EZRA
_ROBERT BRYCE_
CHAPTER 9
V1 After these things had happened, the leaders came to me. They
said, ‘The *people of Israel have not kept themselves separate from
th...
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(5-15) Ezra’s prayer of confession and deprecation.
(5) AND AT THE EVENING SACRIFICE I AROSE UP. — Until the afternoon
Ezra had sat silent and in grief before the Temple, and in presence of
the people...
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FOREIGN MARRIAGES
Ezra 9:1
The successful issue of Ezra's undertaking was speedily followed by a
bitter disappointment on the part of its leader, the experience of
which urged him to make a drastic...
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A LEADER'S SORROWS FOR HIS PEOPLE'S SINS
Ezra 9:1
The mingling of the holy seed with heathen peoples was always the
curse of Israel, and it has been the temptation of God's children in
every age. Do...
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On Ezra's arrival at Jerusalem complaint was made to him of the
failure and sin of the people. What an appalling story it was, that
during these sixty years, even though there had been no return to
he...
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_Peace. Alliance, (Menochius) or advantage. See Psalm cxxi. 8. Moses
had thus proscribed the Moabites, &c., as he had done the people of
Chanaan still more severely. The Israelites were to execute God...
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Reader! what sweet and gracious signs of sorrow, and of real communion
with God. The blushing, and dropping countenance, under the conscious
sense of the divine presence, are among the truest tokens o...
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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 GIVE NOT YOUR DAUGHTERS UNTO THEIR SONS, NOR TAKE THEIR
DAUGHTERS UNTO YOUR SONS,.... That is, in marriage, see Deuteronomy
7:3, where the prohibition is expressed in the same language:...
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Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take
their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth
for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land,...
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_Is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands_
Or, _of these lands_, which are round about it. This expresses the
cause or matter of this uncleanness: the land was not unclean of...
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1 Ezra mourneth for the affinitie of the people with strangers.
5 He prayeth vnto God with confession of sinnes.
1 NOWE when these things were done, the Princes came to me, saying,
The people of Isr...
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Now, therefore, give not your daughters unto their Sons, neither take
their daughters unto your sons, Ezra here quotes from Moses, Exodus
23:32; Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3, nor seek their peace or...
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Ezra's Confession of the People's Sin...
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HUMBLED BECAUSE OF MIXED MARRIAGES
(vv. 1-4)
If Ezra expected to engage in the pleasant work of the priesthood, it
must have been a keen disappointment to find soon after his arrival
that there was...
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5-15 The sacrifice, especially the evening sacrifice, was a type of
the blessed Lamb of God, who in the evening of the world, was to take
away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Ezra's address is a pen...
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NOR SEEK THEIR PEACE; but root them out, as I have commanded you to
do; which also they have abundantly deserved, both of mine and of your
hands. See DEUTERONOMY 7:2. THAT YE MAY BE STRONG: although y...
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Ezra 9:12 give H5414 (H8799) daughters H1323 sons H1121 take H5375
(H8799) daughters H1323 sons H1121 never...
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EZRA DEALS WITH THE PROBLEM OF RETURNEES WHO HAVE BEEN LED ASTRAY INTO
IDOLATRY HAVING TAKEN FOREIGN WIVES (EZRA 9:1 TO EZRA 10:44).
It is important here to recognise that what was in question was not...
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EZRA'S ADMISSION OF ISRAEL'S GUILT BEFORE YHWH ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE
(EZRA 9:5).
When the time of the evening sacrifice came, no doubt feeling that
this act of atonement and dedication on the behalf...
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CONTENTS: The remnant loses its separated position. Ezra's prayer and
confession.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezra.
CONCLUSION: Let this be the comfort of true penitents, that though
their sins have piled up t...
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Ezra 9:2. _The holy seed have mingled with the people._ The
distinction of the Jews from the heathen was not by nature, but by
grace. Their nobility lay in adherence to the covenant of God, and so
the...
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EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 9:1 Ezra Discovers and Confronts the Problem of
Intermarriage. Ezra discovers that the Jewish community has mixed with
idolatrous non-Jewish groups in religion and in marriage. He le...
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EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 9:10 Ezra alludes to Deuteronomy 7:1 and the
community’s unlawful intermarriage. IMPURE... IMPURITY...
UNCLEANNESS. The indigenous people’s way of li
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] We now come to the social and
religious reformation effected by Ezra amongst the Jews who had
previously returned to their own land (chaps. 9 and 10). And in this
chap...
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§ 2. REFORMATION OF RELIGION ACCOMPLISHED BY EZRA AT JERUSALEM.
EXPOSITION
IN the interval between Zerubbabel's rule and the coming of Ezra from
Babylon with a special commission appointing him gover...
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Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The
people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated
themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to...
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2 Chronicles 19:2; 2 John 1:10; 2 John 1:11; Deuteronomy 23:6;...
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Strong — Although you may fancy making leagues and marriages with
them, as the only way to establish you, yet I assure you, it will
weaken and ruin you, and the contrary course will make you strong....