Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezra 9:11
It is unclean — This land is as corrupt as any of the rest of the heathen nations.
It is unclean — This land is as corrupt as any of the rest of the heathen nations.
Verse 11. _HAVE FILLED IT FROM ONE END TO ANOTHER_] The abominations have been like a sweeping mighty torrent, that has increased till it filled the whole land, and carried every thing before it....
SAYING - The words which follow in this verse are not quoted from any previous book of Scripture, but merely give the general sense of numerous passages. Compare the marginal references....
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...
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....
BY. by the hand of. FILTHINESS. Showing Ezra's acquaintance with the Pentateuch. Compare Genesis 15:16; Deuteronomy 9:5....
The Divine commands which Israel had violated had been conveyed to them expressly by the prophets. The people were without excuse. _commanded by thy servants the prophets_ Lit. -by the hand of". To co...
Ezra's Prayer Ezra's prayer, as a confession of national sin, should be compared with the prayer of the Levites (Nehemiah 9:6-38), and more especially with the prayer of Daniel (Daniel 9:4-19). As in...
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....
2. Ezra's prayer is set down for us. TEXT, EZRA 9:6-15 6 and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to Thee, my God, for our iniquities have risen above our heads and our...
THE FILTHINESS OF THE PEOPLE] The iniquity of the Canaanite peoples, whose land Israel had taken in possession, is alluded to in Genesis 15:16; Deuteronomy 9:5 : cp. also 1 Kings 21:26....
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...
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...
(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...
אֲשֶׁ֣ר צִוִּ֗יתָ בְּ יַ֨ד עֲבָדֶ֣יךָ הַ נְּב
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...
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...
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...
_Mouth, like a vessel brim-full. (Menochius) --- Protestants, "from one end ot the other." (Haydock)_...
Reader! what sweet and gracious signs of sorrow, and of real communion with God. The blushing, and dropping countenance, under the conscious sense of the divine presence, are among the truest tokens o...
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...
WHICH THOU HAST COMMANDED BY THY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS,.... Moses, and Joshua, and others, see Deuteronomy 7:3 SAYING, THE LAND, UNTO WHICH YE GO TO POSSESS IT; meaning the land of Canaan: IS AN UNC...
_Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, w...
_Is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands_ Or, _of these lands_, which are round about it. This expresses the cause or matter of this uncleanness: the land was not unclean of...
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...
which Thou hast commanded by Thy servants, the prophets, for their mixed marriages involved idolatry, SAYING, THE LAND UNTO WHICH YE GO TO POSSESS IT IS AN UNCLEAN LAND WITH THE FILTHINESS OF THE PEOP...
Ezra's Confession of the People's Sin...
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...
BY THY SERVANTS: _ Heb._ by the hand of thy servants FROM ONE END TO ANOTHER: _ Heb._ from mouth to mouth...
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...
AN UNCLEAN LAND WITH THE FILTHINESS OF THE PEOPLE: this notes the cause or matter of this uncleanness. The land was not unclean in itself, but only polluted by the filthiness of its inhabitants. OF TH...
Ezra 9:11 commanded H6680 (H8765) by H3027 servants H5650 prophets H5030 saying H559 (H8800) land H776 entering...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 9:10 Ezra alludes to Deuteronomy 7:1 and the community’s unlawful intermarriage. IMPURE... IMPURITY... UNCLEANNESS. The indigenous people’s way of li
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...
§ 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...
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...
2 Chronicles 33:2; 2 Corinthians 7:1; 2 Kings 21:16; Deuteronomy 12:31;...