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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Ezra 9:2

Verse Ezra 9:2. Hath been chief in this trespass.] They who are the first men have been the most capital offenders; so VIRGIL, AEn. ix. 783: -

Unus homo, vestris, o cives, undique septus

Aggeribus, tantas strages impune per urbem

Ediderit? Juvenum primos tot miserit orco?

"Shall one, and he enclosed within your walls,

One rash imprisoned warrior, vanquish all?

Calm you look on, and see the furious foe

Plunge crowds of heroes to the shades below!"

PITT.


The first of the Trojan youth were the chief, the most illustrious; so we say the first men of the kingdom for the nobles, c.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    REPORT IS MADE TO EZRA OF THE MARRIAGES OF JEWS WITH THE HEATHEN. Ezra's zeal in this matter resulted in his going beyond the requirements of the Law (_cf._ Deuteronomy 23:7). Ezra 9:1. the Canaanites...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HOLY SEED, or the sanctuary's seed. See note on Exodus 3:5 and compare Daniel 2:43.Exodus 19:6; Exodus 22:31.

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _they have taken_ i.e. -taken wives" as in Ezra 10:44; 2Ch 11:21; 2 Chronicles 13:21. _the holy seed_ i.e. the race set apart and consecrated to God, cf. Exodus 19:5-6. The term -the holy seed" is fou...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT C. Ezra hears about some current sins, particularly marriage to foreigners, and he prays. 1. Ezra is informed of the problem. TEXT, EZRA 9:1-5 1 Now when these thin...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FOR THEY HAVE TAKEN OF THEIR DAUGHTERS FOR THEMSELVES, AND FOR THEIR SONS: SO THAT THE HOLY SEED HAVE MINGLED THEMSELVES WITH THE PEOPLE OF THOSE LANDS: YEA, THE HAND OF THE PRINCES AND RULERS HATH B...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    9:2 rulers (d-33) _ Segan_ , a Persian word....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IX. (1) NOW WHEN THESE THINGS WERE DONE. — The remainder of the book is occupied with the execution of Ezra’s function as a moral reformer. One chief disorder is mentioned, that of the mixed marriage...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־נָשְׂא֣וּ מִ בְּנֹֽתֵיהֶ֗ם לָהֶם֙ וְ ל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of [those] lands: yea, the hand of the (b) princes and rulers h...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    First. Or "was in this first transgression," incurred by those who returned with Zorobabel; or "was concerned in this very heinous transgression;" in transgressione hac prima. (Calmet) --- Protestants...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Lord hath expressly commanded (Deuteronomy 7:1.) that there should be no intermarriages between Israel and the nations around. Chiefly, no doubt, with an eye to Christ. God's people were a nation...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THEY HAVE TAKEN OF THEIR DAUGHTERS FOR THEMSELVES, AND FOR THEIR SORTS,.... Some that were widowers not only took wives to themselves of the above nations, either when they were of Babylon, where...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of [those] lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _So that the holy seed_, &c. They are called a _holy seed_, because of the covenant which God had made with them, whereby they were constituted a peculiar people, separated from all other nations. _Ha...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For they, the Jews who had previously returned from Babylonia, HAVE TAKEN OF THEIR DAUGHTERS FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR THEIR SONS, SO THAT THE HOLY SEED, the children of Israel as a peculiar people, as a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE EVIL OF INTERMARRIAGES EXPOSED...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 Many corruptions lurk out of the view of the most careful rulers. Some of the people disobeyed the express command of God, which forbade all marriages with the heathen, Ezra 9:7. Disbelief of God...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This they had done, either, 1. In the land of their captivity, into which these people were carried as well as others, as appears from JEREMIAH 25:9, &c. Or rather, 2. Since their return, as may be g...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezra 9:2 taken H5375 (H8804) daughters H1323 sons H1121 holy H6944 seed H2233 mixed H6148 (H8694) peoples...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PROBLEM OF FOREIGN WIVES IS BROUGHT TO EZRA'S ATTENTION (EZRA 9:1). It is noteworthy that the problem in question was drawn to Ezra's attention by some of the ‘princes' of Israel. This suggests th...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    § 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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 7:14; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Deuteronomy 14:2; Deuteronomy 7:1;...

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