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Verse Ezra 9:6. _I AM ASHAMED AND BLUSH_] God had been so often
provoked, and had so often pardoned them, and they had continued to
transgress, that he was ashamed to go back again to the throne of
gr...
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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...
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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....
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TRESPASS. Hebrew. _'ashma_ (feminine.). guilt incurred. The rnasc..
guilt imputed (as in Leviticus 5:7; Numbers 5:8; 2 Kings 12:16; Psalms
68:21)
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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...
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A brief exordium: expression of personal shame and national guilt.
_I am ashamed and blush_ These words occur together frequently as in
Jeremiah 31:19 -I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I d...
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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....
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DISCOURSE: 437
EZRA’S HUMILIATION FOR THE SINS OF HIS PEOPLE
Ezra 9:5. And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness;
and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and
sp...
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_VER._ 6. _AND SAID, O MY GOD,_ &C.— Nothing can be more humble,
devout, and pathetic than this address, in which Ezra acknowledges
that he was confounded when he thought of the greatness of their sin...
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2. Ezra's prayer is set down for us.
TEXT, EZRA 9:6-15
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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...
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_AND SAID, O MY GOD, I AM ASHAMED AND BLUSH TO LIFT UP MY FACE TO
THEE, MY GOD: FOR OUR INIQUITIES ARE INCREASED OVER OUR HEAD, AND OUR
TRESPASS IS GROWN UP UNTO THE HEAVENS._
No JFB commentary on th...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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וָ אֹמְרָ֗ה אֱלֹהַי֙ בֹּ֣שְׁתִּי וְ
נִכְלַ֔מְתִּי...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee,
my God: for our iniquities are increased (d) over [our] head, and our
trespass is grown up unto the (e) heavens.
(d) That is, we...
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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...
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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 SAID, O MY GOD,.... Here begins the prayer of Ezra, and that with
faith in God as covenant God, even when he was about to make
confession of sin, and repentance for it; that prayer is right which...
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And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee,
my God: for our iniquities are increased over [our] head, and our
trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Ver. 6. _And said, O my...
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_O my God, I am ashamed and blush_ “Nothing can be more humble,
devout, and pathetic, than this address, in which Ezra acknowledges
that he was confounded when he thought of the greatness of their sin...
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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...
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and said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush, a very emphatic expression
of his repentant sorrow for his people, TO LIFT UP MY FACE TO THEE, MY
GOD; FOR OUR INIQUITIES ARE INCREASED OVER OUR HEAD, AND O...
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Ezra's Confession of the People's Sin...
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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...
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TRESPASS:
Or, guiltiness...
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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...
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He includes himself in the number of the transgressors, not only by a
rhetorical figure called communication, but partly because he himself
was guilty of many sins; and partly because the princes and...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE COLOR OF VIRTUE
I am ashamed and blush. Ezra 9:6.
Neither could they blush. Jeremiah 6:15.
Did you ever hear the story of how the Virginian creeper got its
blush? The story is only a legend, bu...
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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...
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EZRA—NOTE ON EZRA 9:6 Ezra confesses for the community, beginning
with the historic sins of Israel that had led to the Babylonian exile.
OUR INIQUITIES... OUR GUILT. These two strong terms are each re...
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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...
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§ 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...
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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...
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2 Chronicles 28:9; Daniel 9:7; Daniel 9:8; Ezekiel 16:63; Genesis
13:13
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Our — He includes himself in the number of the transgressors,
because he himself was guilty of many sins; and because the princes
and priests, and so many of the people having done this, the guilt was...