Verse Ezra 10:9. _NINTH MONTH_] Answering to a part of our _December_. _TREMBLING BECAUSE OF - THE GREAT RAIN._] Απο του χειμωνος, _Because_ _of the winter, Septuagint_; it was now _December_, the co...
IT WAS THE NINTH MONTH - Or, our December, a time when rain fails heavily in Palestine: four months, therefore, after Ezra’s arrival in Jerusalem (compare Ezra 7:9). THE STREET - Rather, “the court,”...
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...
JUDAH AND BENJAMIN. Yet spoken of as containing representatives of all Israel. See note on Ezra 10:1. NINTH MONTH. That is Chisleu (= Nov. -Dec), four months after Ezra's arrival (Ezra 7:8). STREET....
_all the men of Judah and Benjamin_ All the male population capable of attending. -Men of Judah and Benjamin", cf. Ezra 1:5; Ezra 4:1. _It_was _the ninth month_ R.V. IT WAS THE NINTH MONTH not a fresh...
_VER._ 9. _IT WAS THE NINTH MONTH,_ &C.— That is, some time in _December,_ when the rains in the Holy Land are extremely cold. Dr. Russel, in his account of the weather at Aleppo, which very much rese...
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...
_THEN ALL THE MEN OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER UNTO JERUSALEM WITHIN THREE DAYS. IT WAS THE NINTH MONTH, ON THE TWENTIETH DAY OF THE MONTH; AND ALL THE PEOPLE SAT IN THE STREET O...
THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE DIVORCED 3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1, which required a bill of divorcement....
THE NINTH MONTH] i.e. Chisleu (=Nov.-Dec.). In Palestine rain falls regularly in December, and on this occasion was perhaps heavier than usual....
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...
וַ יִּקָּבְצ֣וּ כָל ־אַנְשֵֽׁי ־יְהוּדָה֩ וּ...
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...
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It [was] the (e) ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month; and all the people sat in the s...
_Ninth. Casleu, (Zacharias vii. 1.) which corresponds with our November and December. (Menochius) --- Street. Court, which afforded as yet no shelter from the rain. (Calmet) --- This would tend to pun...
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...
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...
THEN ALL THE MEN OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN,.... And such of the ten tribes that returned and dwelt among them: GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER UNTO JERUSALEM WITHIN THREE DAYS; the time fixed: which they we...
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It [was] the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month; and all the people sat in the stree...
_Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin_, &c. Not only of these two tribes, as appears from the following catalogue, in which there are priests and Levites; but all the Israelites, (Ezra 10:25,) who a...
[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...
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month, between the end of December and the fir...
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...
THE GREAT RAIN: _ Heb._ the showers...
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...
ALL THE MEN OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN not only of these two tribes, as appears from the following catalogue, where there are priests and Levites; but all the Israelites, EZRA 10:25, who are thus described...
Ezra 10:9 men H582 Judah H3063 Benjamin H1144 gathered H6908 (H8735) Jerusalem H3389 three H7969 days H3117 ninth...
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...
NINTH MONTH That is, December....
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...
_Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin._ A GREAT AND TROUBLED ASSEMBLY The text teaches-- I. That it is the tendency of sin to produce sorrow and consternation of soul. There is a scorpion sin in...
_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...
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 Samuel 12:17; 1 Samuel 12:18; Esther 2:16; Ezra 7:8; Ezra 7:9;...
Of Judah — Not only of these two tribes, as appears from the following catalogue, where there are priests and Levites; but all the Israelites, Ezra 10:25, who are thus described, because the greatest...