Our rulers — Let the great council, called the Sanhedrim, be settled, and meet to determine of all particular causes. Judges — Who are best able to inform the great council of the quality of the persons, and all matters of fact and circumstances. Until — Until the thing be done, and God's wrath thereby removed.
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...
RULERS. princes. FOR. Hebrew. _'ad =_ "until", as in the previous clause. Translate and supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6) thus: "until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until th...
The resolution of the general assembly epitomised. A general assent to Ezra's proposal. The time of the year and the magnitude of the task make it necessary to appoint a commission to carry it into ex...
A commission recommended. _Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand_ R.V. LET NOW OUR PRINCES BE APPOINTED (marg. Heb. _stand_) FOR ALL THE CONGREGATION. The A.V. fails to give the idea of the...
3. The decision is accepted by all, in the assembly. TEXT, EZRA 10:9-15 9 So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth...
_LET NOW OUR RULERS OF ALL THE CONGREGATION STAND, AND LET ALL THEM WHICH HAVE TAKEN STRANGE WIVES IN OUR CITIES COME AT APPOINTED TIMES, AND WITH THEM THE ELDERS OF EVERY CITY, AND THE JUDGES THEREOF...
THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE DIVORCED 3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1, which required a bill of divorcement....
LET NOW OUR RULERS.. STAND] i.e. as a committee to see into the question of the divorces....
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...
(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...
יַֽעֲמְדוּ ־נָ֣א שָׂ֠רֵינוּ לְֽ כָל ־הַ קָּהָ
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...
Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, (i) and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges ther...
_Cities. It is not clear whether the rulers went to the different cities, or the principal men of each gave information, and caused the guilty to appear before Esdras, at Jerusalem. (Haydock)_...
No doubt the hand of the Lord was upon them, and with them, so that grace triumphed over nature, that all the people, as the heart of one man consented unto the thing. Oh! how delightful is it, when g...
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...
LET NOW OUR RULERS OF ALL THE CONGREGATIONS STAND,.... Let the great sanhedrim, or court of judicature at Jerusalem, be fixed and continued, and others: AND LET ALL THEM WHICH HAVE TAKEN STRANGE WIVE...
Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof,...
_Let now our rulers stand_ They propose that the rulers in Jerusalem should meet, to take cognizance of this matter, and to judge and determine in all particular cases: and that, at appointed times, t...
[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...
Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, as a commission to adjust the entire affair, AND LET ALL THEM WHICH HAVE TAKEN STRANGE WIVES IN OUR CITIES COME AT APPOINTED TIMES, they were to be no...
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...
FOR THIS MATTER: Or, till this matter be dispatched...
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...
LET OUR RULERS OF ALL THE CONGREGATION STAND; let the great council, called the _Sanhedrim_, be settled, and meet to judge and determine of all particular causes. THEM WHICH HAVE TAKEN STRANGE WIVES,...
Ezra 10:14 leaders H8269 assembly H6951 stand H5975 (H8799) cities H5892 taken H3427 (H8689) pagan H5237 wives...
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...
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...
_But the people are many._ THE REFORMATION EFFECTED I. notwith standing difficulties. 1. The greatness of the undertaking. 2. The inclemency of the weather. Learn: To eradicate sin is a task of th...
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
EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 10:14 WRATH OF OUR GOD. See note on v. 10. ⇐...
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...
2 Chronicles 19:5; 2 Chronicles 29:10; 2 Chronicles 30:8; Deuteronomy 13:17;...
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...