Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezra 10:3
Such as are born — These children were only cast out of the common — wealth of Israel, but were not utterly forsaken; probably care was taken by authority, that they should have provision made for them.
Such as are born — These children were only cast out of the common — wealth of Israel, but were not utterly forsaken; probably care was taken by authority, that they should have provision made for them.
Verse Ezra 10:3. _LET US MAKE A COVENANT_] נכרת ברית _nichrath berith, let_ _us cut_ or _divide the covenant sacrifice_. Genesis 15:10....
LET IT BE DONE ACCORDING TO THE LAW - i. e., let a formal “bill of divorcement” be given to each foreign wife, whereby she will be restored to the condition of an unmarried woman, and be free to marry...
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 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...
SUCH AS ARE BORN. It does not appear that Shechaniah's proposal was carried out. Compare verses: Ezra 10:11; Ezra 10:14. COUNSEL. See Psalms 33:11;...
_let us make a covenant_&c. Compare other covenants undertaken by the people, e.g. 2 Chronicles 15:12; 2 Chronicles 29:10; 2 Chronicles 34:31-32;...
_VER._ 3. _TO PUT AWAY ALL THE WIVES, AND SUCH AS ARE BORN OF THEM_— It has been objected by some, that it seems an act of extreme severity, if not of injustice, upon the dissolution of these illegal...
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...
_NOW THEREFORE LET US MAKE A COVENANT WITH OUR GOD TO PUT AWAY ALL THE WIVES, AND SUCH AS ARE BORN OF THEM, ACCORDING TO THE COUNSEL OF MY LORD, AND OF THOSE THAT TREMBLE AT THE COMMANDMENT OF OUR GOD...
10:3 lord, (e-30) The Hebrew text shows _ Adonai_ , 'the Lord.'...
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...
וְ עַתָּ֣ה נִֽכְרָת ־בְּרִ֣ית לֵ֠ אלֹהֵינוּ ל
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...
Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away (c) all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our...
Covenant. The marrying with strange women seemed to have annulled the covenant of God. --- Of them. The children were to follow the mothers, as in other unlawful connections. Their being suffered to r...
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...
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...
NOW THEREFORE LET US MAKE A COVENANT WITH OUR GOD,.... Renew our covenant with him, and lay ourselves under fresh obligation by promise and oath, and unanimously agree TO PUT AWAY ALL THE WIVES, AND...
Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God;...
_To put away all the wives, and such as are born of them_ If this seem to any to have been an act of great severity, if not injustice, “let it be observed that the law (Deuteronomy 7:1, &c.) was expre...
[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...
Ezra's Reform Measures Adopted...
Now, therefore, let us make a covenant with our God, by obligating themselves before God with a solemn vow, TO PUT AWAY ALL THE WIVES, by an absolute divorce, AND SUCH AS ARE BORN OF THEM, the childre...
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...
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...
TO PUT AWAY ALL THE WIVES; which though it may seem harsh, yet is not unjust, if it be considered, 1. That marriages made between some prohibited persons; as suppose, between a father and his daughter...
Ezra 10:3 make H3772 (H8799) covenant H1285 God H430 away H3318 (H8687) wives H802 born H3205 ...
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...
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
EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 10:3 Shecaniah’s belief that “there is hope for Israel” (v. Ezra 10:2) depends on their making a COVENANT with GOD. In this case it m
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...
1 Corinthians 7:12; 1 Corinthians 7:13; 2 Chronicles 29:10; 2 Chronicles 30:12;...