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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Ezra 10:2

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 with that in James, James 3:9. With the tongue curse we men. He seems to have been a chief man among the people; and Ezra, at present, stood in need of his influence and support.

Yet now there is hope in Israel] מקוה mikveh, expectation, of pardon; for the people were convinced of the evil, and were deeply penitent: hence it is said, Ezra 10:1, that they wept sore.

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See also Ezra 10:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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....

  • 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 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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 1 Now while Ezra was p...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • 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....

  • 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

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּעַן֩ שְׁכַנְיָ֨ה בֶן ־יְחִיאֵ֜ל מִ בְּנ

  • 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

    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 ...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _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...

  • 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

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

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

    _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...

  • 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

    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...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezra 10:2 Shechaniah H7935 son H1121 Jehiel H3171 sons H1121 Elam H5867 up H6030 (H8799) said H559 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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 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 10:2 SHECANIAH speaks for the whole gathering. JEHIEL. See also v. Ezra 10:26; Shecaniah’s own father may have had a mixed marriag

  • 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

    1 John 1:7; Exodus 34:12; Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7; Ezra 10:26;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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