Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Ezra 10:6
Went into the chamber, that he with the princes and elders, as it follows, Ezra 10:8, might consult about the execution of their resolution.
Went into the chamber, that he with the princes and elders, as it follows, Ezra 10:8, might consult about the execution of their resolution.
Verse Ezra 10:6. _JOHANAN THE SON OF ELIASHIB_] Eliashib was high priest, and was succeeded in that office by his son Joiada, Nehemiah 12:10. Probably _Johanan_ here is the same as _Jonathan_ in Nehe...
The “chamber of Johanan” was probably one of those attached externally to the temple (see 1 Kings 6:5). Eliashib was the grandson of Jeshua Ezra 3:2, and was high priest under Nehemiah Nehemiah 3:1. H...
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...
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...
THEN EZRA ROSE UP. In response to Shechaniah. JOHANAN. The son of Eliashib, the high priest who succeeded Joiakim, the successor of Jeshua (Nehemiah 12:10; Nehemiah 12:23). CAME THITHER. According t...
The Assembly and the Reform 6. _went into the chamber_ See on Ezra 8:29, and cf. Nehemiah 13:4. _Johanan the son of Eliashib_ R.V. JEHOHANAN THE SON OF ELIASHIB. The best-known Eliashib of this perio...
2. The decision is shared by the leaders, and an assembly is ordered. TEXT, EZRA 10:5-8 5 Then Ezra rose and made the leading priests, the Levites, and all Israel, take oath that they would do acco...
_THEN EZRA ROSE UP FROM BEFORE THE HOUSE OF GOD, AND WENT INTO THE CHAMBER OF JOHANAN THE SON OF ELIASHIB: AND WHEN HE CAME THITHER, HE DID EAT NO BREAD, NOR DRINK WATER: FOR HE MOURNED BECAUSE OF THE...
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 aft...
THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE DIVORCED 3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1, which required a bill of divorcement....
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...
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...
וַ יָּ֣קָם עֶזְרָ֗א מִ לִּ פְנֵי֙ בֵּ֣ית
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...
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...
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...
Before. 3 Esdras, "the court or hall of the temple." (Haydock) --- Eliasib. His son and successor is styled Joiada, 2 Esdras xii. 10. The same person had often many names, (Calmet) or Johanan might be...
Who but must admire the holy zeal of Ezra? What a wonderful attempt it must have been? What a crucifixion of the flesh with its affections and lusts? Do, Reader, observe how the Lord seemed to answer...
_VICARIOUS PENITENCE_ ‘He mourned because of the transgression of them.’ Ezra 10:6 I. AN INNOCENT YET PENITENT LEADER.—It is certainly worthy of remark that it is not narrated of Ezra that he, as w...
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...
THEN EZRA ROSE UP FROM BEFORE THE HOUSE OF GOD,.... Departed from thence: AND WENT INTO THE CHAMBER OF JOHANAN THE SON OF ELIASHIB; who was of the family of the high priest. Eliashib was grandson of...
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and [when] he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of th...
_Then rose up Ezra from before the house_ This seems to imply that he made them swear before he would rise up; _and went into the chamber of Johanan_ That, with the princes and elders, he might consul...
[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...
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, he left the place in the court where he had prayed, AND WENT INTO THE CHAMBER OF JOHANAN, THE SON OF ELIASHIB, where he could meet the princes and elder...
Ezra's Reform Measures Adopted...
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...
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...
Ezra 10:6 Ezra H5830 up H6965 (H8799) before H6440 house H1004 God H430 went H3212 (H8799) chamber...
Ezra 10:6 ‘Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water, for he mourned because...
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...
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...
_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...
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
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)....
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
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...
Daniel 9:3; Deuteronomy 9:18; Ezra 9:4; Isaiah 22:12; Job 23:12;...
Went — That with the princes and elders, he might consult about the execution of their resolution. Thither — 'Till he saw something done....