Ezra 10:1

CHAPTER X

The people are greatly afflicted by Ezra's prayer, 1.

Shechaniah proposes that all who have taken strange wives

should put them away, and the children they had by them; and

make a covenant to serve God, 2-4.

Ezra is encouraged; and make a proclamation to collect the

people, to find who had transgressed, 5-8.

They come together on the twentieth day of the ninth month, 9.

Ezra exhorts them to put away their strange wives, 10.

The people agree to it, and require time, 11-14.

This being granted, the business is completed by the first of

the first month, 15-17.

Some of the priests had taken strange wives; their names, and

the names of all who were in the same trespass, 18-44.

NOTES ON CHAP. X

Verse Ezra 10:1. The people wept very sore.] They were deeply affected at the thought of God's displeasure, which they justly feared was about to light upon them, because of their transgressions.