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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...
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THE JEWS ASSEMBLE IN JERUSALEM; OFFICERS ARE APPOINTED FROM EACH CITY
TO SEE THAT THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE PUT AWAY.
Ezra 10:6. Jehohanan: _cf._ Nehemiah 12:13. AND WHEN HE CAME THITHER:
read, and he lo...
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TRESPASS. Hebrew. _'ashah._ See note on Ezra 9:6....
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_Ezra the priest_ See note on Ezra 7:11.
_Ye have transgressed_ R.V. YE HAVE TRESPASSED, as in Ezra 10:2; Ezra
10:6; Ezra 9:4 and...
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Ezra's address to the people: (1) the offence stated; (2) the reform
commanded, consisting of (_a_) public confession, (_b_) practical
amendment....
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3. The decision is accepted by all, in the assembly.
TEXT, EZRA 10:9-15
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So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the
three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth...
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_AND EZRA THE PRIEST STOOD UP, AND SAID UNTO THEM, YE HAVE
TRANSGRESSED, AND HAVE TAKEN STRANGE WIVES, TO INCREASE THE TRESPASS
OF ISRAEL._
Ezra the priest stood up and said. Having fully represented...
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THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE DIVORCED
3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1, which required a bill
of divorcement....
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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...
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(7-17) Conference of the people and commission to try individual
cases.
(8) FORFEITED. — This, as also what precedes and what follows, again
recalls the express commission of Ezra 7. But “according to...
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וַ יָּ֨קָם עֶזְרָ֤א הַ כֹּהֵן֙ וַ
יֹּ֣אמֶר
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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...
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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...
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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...
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And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have
transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to (g) increase the
trespass of Israel.
(g) You have laid one sin on another....
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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 EZRA THE PRIEST STOOD UP,.... In the midst of the assembly to make
his speech, acquainting them with the reason of their meeting
together:
AND SAID UNTO THEM, YE HAVE TRANSGRESSED; the law of God...
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And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have
transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass
of Israel.
Ver. 10. _We have transgressed_] We have disloyally, or rathe...
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[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...
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Ezra's Reform Measures Adopted...
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And Ezra, the priest, stood up and said unto them, Ye have
transgressed and have taken strange wives, dwelling with them in a
wedlock which did not meet with the approval of the Lord, TO INCREASE
THE...
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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...
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HAVE TAKEN:
_ Heb._ have caused to dwell, or have brought back...
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6-14 There is hope concerning people, when they are convinced, not
only that it is good to part with their sins, but that it is
necessary; we must do it, or we are undone. So rich is the mercy, and
s...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Ezra 10:10 Ezra H5830 priest H3548 up H6965 (H8799) said H559 (H8799)
transgressed H4603 (H8804) taken...
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Ezra 10:7
‘And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all
the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves
together to Jerusalem,'
Ezra having retired to pray, the...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 10:10 INCREASED THE GUILT OF ISRAEL. The return
from exile had signified that Israel’s past sins had been forgiven
(Isaiah 40:1). Ezra now points to renewed sin,
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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)....
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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
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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...
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2 Chronicles 28:13; Ezra 9:6; Joshua 22:17; Joshua 22:18; Matthew 23:
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Why did God command Israelite men to put away their unbelieving wives,
but Paul said not to do so?
PROBLEM: Ezra made all the returning Israelites put away their
“pagan wives” because they were “addin...