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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Ezra 9:1

CHAPTER IX

The princes inform Ezra that many of the people now settled

in the had married heathen wives; and several of the rulers

were principal offenders in this thing, 1, 2.

He is greatly afflicted, 3, 4.

His prayer to God on thus account, 5-15.

NOTES ON CHAP. IX

Verse Ezra 9:1. The people of Israel] These were they who had returned at first with Zerubbabel, and were settled in the land of Judea and whom Ezra found on his arrival to be little better than the Canaanitish nations from whom God had commanded them ever to keep separate.

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