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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...
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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...
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CHILDREN. sons. Not. the same word as in Ezra 10:1.
CAPTIVITY. exile. As in verses: Ezra 10:6; Ezra 10:8; Ezra 10:16;...
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_And they made proclamation_&c. The phrase for making a proclamation
is peculiar; it occurs also in chap. Ezra 1:1, where see note.
The authors of this proclamation are not mentioned. But we are
evid...
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2. The decision is shared by the leaders, and an assembly is ordered.
TEXT, EZRA 10:5-8
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Then Ezra rose and made the leading priests, the Levites, and all
Israel, take oath that they would do acco...
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_AND THEY MADE PROCLAMATION THROUGHOUT JUDAH AND JERUSALEM UNTO ALL
THE CHILDREN OF THE CAPTIVITY, THAT THEY SHOULD GATHER THEMSELVES
TOGETHER UNTO JERUSALEM;_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE DIVORCED
3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1, which required a bill
of divorcement....
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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...
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(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...
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וַ יַּעֲבִ֨ירוּ קֹ֜ול בִּ יהוּדָ֣ה וִ
ירֽוּשׁ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AND THEY MADE PROCLAMATION,.... By the voice of an herald:
THROUGHOUT JUDAH AND JERUSALEM, UNTO ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE
CAPTIVITY; who were returned from it:
THAT THEY SHOULD GATHER THEMSELVES TOGET...
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And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the
children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together
unto Jerusalem;
Ver. 7. _And they made proclamation_] Heb...
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[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...
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And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the
children of the captivity, both of the first and second band of
returned exiles, THAT THEY SHOULD GATHER THEMSELVES TOGETHER UNTO...
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Ezra's Reform Measures Adopted...
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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...
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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Ezra 10:7 issued H5674 (H8686) proclamation H6963 Judah H3063
Jerusalem H3389 descendants H1121 captivity H1473 gather H6908
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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)....
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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
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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...
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2 Chronicles 30:5; Ezra 1:1...