Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezra 9:12
Strong — Although you may fancy making leagues and marriages with them, as the only way to establish you, yet I assure you, it will weaken and ruin you, and the contrary course will make you strong.
Strong — Although you may fancy making leagues and marriages with them, as the only way to establish you, yet I assure you, it will weaken and ruin you, and the contrary course will make you strong.
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....
NOR SEEK THEIR PEACE. Reference to Pentateuch: the very words of Deuteronomy 23:6. CHILDREN. sons....
_Now therefore give not_, &c. This sentence reproduces the substance of Deuteronomy 7:3 -Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter sh...
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...
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...
וְ֠ עַתָּה בְּֽנֹותֵיכֶ֞ם אַל ־תִּתְּנ֣וּ לִ...
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...
_Peace. Alliance, (Menochius) or advantage. See Psalm cxxi. 8. Moses had thus proscribed the Moabites, &c., as he had done the people of Chanaan still more severely. The Israelites were to execute God...
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...
NOW THEREFORE GIVE NOT YOUR DAUGHTERS UNTO THEIR SONS, NOR TAKE THEIR DAUGHTERS UNTO YOUR SONS,.... That is, in marriage, see Deuteronomy 7:3, where the prohibition is expressed in the same language:...
Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land,...
_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...
Now, therefore, give not your daughters unto their Sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, Ezra here quotes from Moses, Exodus 23:32; Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3, nor seek their peace or...
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...
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...
NOR SEEK THEIR PEACE; but root them out, as I have commanded you to do; which also they have abundantly deserved, both of mine and of your hands. See DEUTERONOMY 7:2. THAT YE MAY BE STRONG: although y...
Ezra 9:12 give H5414 (H8799) daughters H1323 sons H1121 take H5375 (H8799) daughters H1323 sons H1121 never...
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 19:2; 2 John 1:10; 2 John 1:11; Deuteronomy 23:6;...