Ezra 10:1-44
THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE DIVORCED 3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1, which required a bill of divorcement.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE DIVORCED 3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1, which required a bill of divorcement.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHIEF PRIESTS] RV 'the chiefs of the priests': see 2 Chronicles 36:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
JOHANAN] If the Eliashib meant is the contemporary of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 13:4; Nehemiah 13:7) and Johanan was really his grandson (not his son, see Nehemiah 12:22), he must have lived a long while after Ezra, and consequently the description of the chamber, here alluded to, as the chamber of Johanan... [ Continue Reading ]
FORFEITED] lit. 'placed under the ban.' Goods that were 'banned' were brought into the treasury of the Lord (Joshua 6:19). For the authority under which these proceedings were undertaken see Ezra 7:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE NINTH MONTH] i.e. Chisleu (=Nov.-Dec.). In Palestine rain falls regularly in December, and on this occasion was perhaps heavier than usual.... [ Continue Reading ]
WE ARE MANY, etc.] better, 'we have greatly transgressed.'... [ Continue Reading ]
LET NOW OUR RULERS.. STAND] i.e. as a committee to see into the question of the divorces.... [ Continue Reading ]
WERE EMPLOYED ABOUT] RV 'stood up against.' The opposition was not really strong. 16, 17. THE TENTH MONTH.. THE FIRST] i.e. Tebeth (=Dec.-Jan.) and Nisan (=Mar.-Apr.).... [ Continue Reading ]
Of the guilty there were 17 priests, 10 Levites, singers and porters, and 86 laymen, making a total of 113.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF ISRAEL] i.e. of the laity, as contrasted with the priests and Levites.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Some_ OF THEM, etc.] The text is obscure and perhaps corrupt: the LXX renders 'and had begotten children by them'; whilst 1Es 9:36 has 'and they put them away with their children.' The harsh measures here described were adopted by Ezra and his supporters owing to the necessity of preserving the dis... [ Continue Reading ]