WHEN EZRA HAD PRAYED. Note the change to the third person. This does not imply another authorship. Such changes are common. Compare Isaiah 6:5; Isaiah 7:3; Isaiah 37:6 with other passages. Also Jeremiah 20:1 with Ezra 10:7. and Jeremiah 21:1 with Jeremiah 28:1; Jeremiah 28:5. GOD. Hebrew. Elohim. [ Continue Reading ]
THE SONS OF ELAM. Compare Ezra 10:26. ANSWERED AND SAID.. Hebrew idiom, by which the first verb "answered" must be rendered according to the context. Here. "confessed and said". TRESPASSED. acted treacherously. Hebrew. _ma'al_. App-44. PEOPLE. peoples. IN. for.... [ Continue Reading ]
SUCH AS ARE BORN. It does not appear that Shechaniah's proposal was carried out. Compare verses: Ezra 10:11; Ezra 10:14. COUNSEL. See Psalms 33:11; Psalms 73:24; Psalms 106:13.Proverbs 8:14; Proverbs 19:21.Isaiah 46:10;... [ Continue Reading ]
ARISE. It would seem that Ezra continued kneeling.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHIEF PRIESTS. the princes of the priests. Compare 2 Chronicles 36:14. THE LEVITES. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "and the Levites".... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN EZRA ROSE UP. In response to Shechaniah. JOHANAN. The son of Eliashib, the high priest who succeeded Joiakim, the successor of Jeshua (Nehemiah 12:10; Nehemiah 12:23). CAME THITHER. According to Syriac and Arabic. "lodged (or spent the night) there". MOURNED. Compare the first occurance of H... [ Continue Reading ]
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; Ezra 1:11; Ezra 2:1; Ezra 4:1; Ezra 6:19; Ezra 6:20; Ezra 6:21;... [ Continue Reading ]
FORFEITED. devoted. CARRIED AWAY. into captivity.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. broad place.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRESPASS. Hebrew. _'ashah._ See note on Ezra 9:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THOU HAST SAID. according to thy words. Hebrew margin reads "word".... [ Continue Reading ]
A TIME OF MUCH RAIN. the rainy season. TRANSGRESSED. rebelled. Hebrew. _pasha'._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
RULERS. princes. FOR. Hebrew. _'ad =_ "until", as in the previous clause. Translate and supply Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6) thus: "until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter [be carried out]".... [ Continue Reading ]
ONLY. But, or. Nevertheless. TIKVAH. Compare 2 Kings 22:14 and 1Ch 34:22. WERE EMPLOYED, &C.. superintended [the business].... [ Continue Reading ]
CERTAIN. men. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14. CHIEF. heads.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH. See note on Genesis 8:13. Ezra's last date. The commission, therefore, sat for eighty-eight days.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SONS OF JOSHUA. Who had come up with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:2). There were 973 priests of that house (Ezra 2:36). There were found guilty seventeen priests, ten Levites singers and sorters, and eighty-six lay people, making 118 in all.... [ Continue Reading ]
GAVE THEIR HANDS. Hebrew idiom for giving their word. Compare 2 Kings 10:15. BEING GUILTY. Compare Leviticus 5:1. A RAM. See Leviticus 5:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
NETHANEEL. Some codices, with five early printed editions, read "and Nethaneel".... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BAMOTH. Hebrew text reads "Jeremoth". Margin reads "and Ramoth".... [ Continue Reading ]
OF. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, have this word "of" in the text.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRANGE. foreign. THUS ENDS the first part of this book "Ezra-Nehemiah"; not abruptly; as it is followed by the second part, which is concerned mainly with the rebuilding of the city and the walls, instead of with the Temple. The incidents recorded in Nehemiah 1:1 Nehemiah 7:4 had taken place befor... [ Continue Reading ]