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WE WERE BONDMEN - Rather, “we are bondmen” (compare the marginal
reference). The Israelites, though returned from the captivity, were
still “bondmen.” The Persian monarch was their absolute lord and
m...
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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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WE WERE. Or, supply the Ellipsis "we [are]".
BONDMEN. The subjects of the Persians (Nehemiah 9:36).
MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace.
KINGS OF PERSIA. See App-57.
TO REPAIR THE DESOLATIONS. Compare...
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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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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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_For we_were _bondmen_ R.V. FOR WE ARE BONDMEN. Ezra explains his
words -in our bondage". The bondage is not past. The Jews are still
bondmen, in servitude to the king of Persia.
_yet our God_, &c. T...
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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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_FOR WE WERE BONDMEN; YET OUR GOD HATH NOT FORSAKEN US IN OUR BONDAGE,
BUT HATH EXTENDED MERCY UNTO US IN THE SIGHT OF THE KINGS OF PERSIA,
TO GIVE US A REVIVING, TO SET UP THE HOUSE OF OUR GOD, AND T...
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9:9 wall (b-50) Or 'enclosing fence.' see Ezekiel 13:5 ....
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WE _were_ BONDMEN] RV 'we are bondmen': i.e. subjects of the Persians:
cp. Nehemiah 9:36. A WALL] i.e. protection (RM 'a fence')....
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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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כִּֽי ־עֲבָדִ֣ים אֲנַ֔חְנוּ וּ בְ
עַבְדֻתֵ֔נוּ...
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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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Fence. Hebrew gader, "the name which the Carthaginians" gave to Cadiz,
"as it signifies a fence," or an inclosure. (Pliny, [Natural History?]
xxii.) (Calmet) --- Some Latin manuscripts read spem, "hop...
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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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FOR WE WERE BONDMEN,.... To the Chaldeans when in Babylon, which was
more than the Jews in the times of Christ would own, John 8:33,
YET OUR GOD HATH NOT FORSAKEN US IN OUR BONDAGE; had not left them...
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For we [were] bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our
bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of
Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and...
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_For we were bondmen_ In greater bondage than that in which we now
are. _Our God hath extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of
Persia_ Hath given us to find favour in their eyes. _To give us...
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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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For we were bondmen, held captive by the enemies; YET OUR GOD HATH NOT
FORSAKEN US IN OUR BONDAGE, BUT HATH EXTENDED MERCY UNTO US IN THE
SIGHT OF THE KINGS OF PERSIA, TO GIVE US A REVIVING, restoring...
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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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TO REPAIR:
_ Heb._ to set up...
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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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WE WERE BONDMEN, i.e. in greater bondage than that in which we now
are. HATH EXTENDED MERCY UNTO US IN THE SIGHT OF THE KINGS OF PERSIA,
i.e. hath given us to find favour in their eyes. TO GIVE US A
R...
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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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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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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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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 9:9 WE ARE SLAVES. The exiles remain under the
authority of PERSIA (see Nehemiah 9:36). Even so, God has shown the...
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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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Daniel 9:25; Ezekiel 11:16; Ezra 1:1; Ezra 1:7; Ezra 6:1;...
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A wall — The favour of the kings of Persia whose edicts were their
security against all those enemies wherewith they were encompassed:
and the gracious providence of God, which had planted them in the...