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Verse Ezra 9:5. _FELL UPON MY KNEES_] In token of the deepest
_humility._ _Spread out my hands_, as if to _lay hold_ on the mercy of
God. We have already had occasion to explain these significant acts...
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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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HAVING RENT. having already rent.
I FEEL UPON MY KNEES. Compare Ezra 10:1; 2 Chronicles 6:13.Daniel
6:10; Luke 22:41.
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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: 437
EZRA’S HUMILIATION FOR THE SINS OF HIS PEOPLE
Ezra 9:5. And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness;
and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and
sp...
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TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT
C. Ezra hears about some current sins, particularly marriage to
foreigners, and he prays.
1. Ezra is informed of the problem.
TEXT, EZRA 9:1-5
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Now when these thin...
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_AND AT THE EVENING SACRIFICE I AROSE UP FROM MY HEAVINESS; AND HAVING
RENT MY GARMENT AND MY MANTLE, I FELL UPON MY KNEES, AND SPREAD OUT MY
HANDS UNTO THE LORD MY GOD,_
At the evening sacrifice I a...
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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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וּ בְ מִנְחַ֣ת הָ עֶ֗רֶב קַ֚מְתִּי מִ
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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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I would have the Reader observe, that until the hour of the evening
sacrifice, the man of God expressed the perturbations of his mind in
humble silence. Neither the rending of the garment, nor the man...
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_A HEAVY-HEARTED LEADER_
‘My Heaviness.’
Ezra 9:5
I. 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...
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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 at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having
rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my
hands unto the LORD my God,
Ver. 5. _I arose up from my he...
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_I rose up from my heaviness_ From that mournful posture, and put
myself into the posture of a petitioner. He did this at the time of
the evening sacrifice, because then devout people used to come int...
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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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Ezra's Confession of the People's Sin...
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And at the evening sacrifice, about the middle of the afternoon, I
AROSE UP FROM MY HEAVINESS, from the stupor which had benumbed him;
and HAVING RENT MY GARMENT AND MY MANTLE, once more indicating hi...
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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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HEAVINESS:
Or, affliction...
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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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FROM MY HEAVINESS, i.e. from that mournful posture, EZRA 8:4, and put
myself into the posture of a petitioner. Or, BY REASON OF MY
HEAVINESS, OR AFFLICTION. Having mourned for the sin, I considered
th...
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Ezra 9:5 evening H6153 sacrifice H4503 arose H6965 (H8804) fasting
H8589 torn H7167 (H8800) garment H899 robe...
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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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1 Kings 8:22; 1 Kings 8:38; 1 Kings 8:54; 2 Chronicles 6:13; Acts 21:5
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Heaviness — From that mournful posture, and put myself into the
posture of a petitioner. He did this at the time of the evening
sacrifice, because then devout people used to come into the courts of
th...