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Verse 13. _HAST PUNISHED US LESS THAN OUR INIQUITIES_] Great,
numerous, and oppressive as our calamities have been, yet merely as
temporal punishments, they have been much less than our provocations
h...
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DELIVERANCE - Or, “remnant,” as in Ezra 9:8....
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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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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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_great trespass_ R.V. GREAT GUILT. Cf. on Ezra 9:7. Not an isolated
offence, but the condition of deep obligation for sin.
_seeing that thou … hast_, &c. According to this rendering, Ezra
asks as it w...
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Great as have been our punishments in the past, they have been less
than we deserved. Now that we have sinned yet again, what do we
deserve but extermination?...
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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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DISCOURSE: 438
USE OF GOD’S DIVERSIFIED DISPENSATIONS
Ezra 9:13. _After all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for
our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less
than ou...
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_VER._ 13. _SEEING THAT THOU OUR GOD HAST PUNISHED US,_ &C.— _Shall
it be, that when thou, our God, withholdest the rod from our
iniquities, and leavest for us this remnant,_ ver. 14. _Shall it be
tha...
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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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9:13 trespass, (c-17) Or rather 'guilt.' less (d-26) Or 'spared us
more.'...
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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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_Such_ DELIVERANCE] RV 'such a remnant.'...
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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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וְ אַֽחֲרֵי֙ כָּל ־הַ בָּ֣א עָלֵ֔ינוּ
בְּ
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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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And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our
great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than
our (g) iniquities [deserve], and hast given us [such] deliveranc...
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_Saved us. Protestants, "hast punished us less than our iniquities
deserve and hast given us such deliverance as this." Septuagint, "hast
made our transgressions light," (Haydock) not weighing them wi...
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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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AND AFTER ALL THAT IS COME UPON US FOR OUR EVIL DEEDS, AND FOR OUR
GREAT TRESPASS,.... As famine, sword, pestilence, and captivity, for
their idolatries and other heinous sins:
SEEING THAT OUR GOD HA...
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And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our
great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than
our iniquities [deserve], and hast given us [such] deliverance as...
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_After all that is come upon us for our evil deeds_ After all our sore
sufferings for our sins. _Seeing thou hast punished us less than our
iniquities deserve_ After all thy favours shown us in the mi...
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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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And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our
great trespass, the punishment of their exile, SEEING THAT THOU, OUR
GOD, HAST PUNISHED US LESS THAN OUR INIQUITIES DESERVE, literally...
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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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HAST PUNISHED US LESS, THEN OUR INIQUITIES DESERVE:
_ Heb._ hast withheld beneath our iniquities...
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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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After all our sore sufferings for our sins, and after all thy favour
showed to us in the mitigation of thy judgments. SUCH DELIVERANCE AS
THIS; so full, so sudden, and unexpected, and amazing, not onl...
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Ezra 9:13 after H310 come H935 (H8802) evil H7451 deeds H4639 great
H1419 guilt H819 God H430 punished...
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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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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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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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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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Ezekiel 24:13; Ezekiel 24:14; Galatians 3:4; Habakkuk 3:2; L