Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Ezra 9:5
Verse Ezra 9:5. Fell upon my knees] In token of the deepest humility. Spread out my hands, as if to lay hold on the mercy of God. We have already had occasion to explain these significant acts.
Verse Ezra 9:5. Fell upon my knees] In token of the deepest humility. Spread out my hands, as if to lay hold on the mercy of God. We have already had occasion to explain these significant acts.
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...
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....
HAVING RENT. having already rent. I FEEL UPON MY KNEES. Compare Ezra 10:1; 2 Chronicles 6:13.Daniel 6:10; Luke 22:41.
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....
DISCOURSE: 437 EZRA’S HUMILIATION FOR THE SINS OF HIS PEOPLE Ezra 9:5. And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and sp...
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...
_AND AT THE EVENING SACRIFICE I AROSE UP FROM MY HEAVINESS; AND HAVING RENT MY GARMENT AND MY MANTLE, I FELL UPON MY KNEES, AND SPREAD OUT MY HANDS UNTO THE LORD MY GOD,_ At the evening sacrifice I a...
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...
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...
(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...
וּ בְ מִנְחַ֣ת הָ עֶ֗רֶב קַ֚מְתִּי מִ
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...
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...
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...
I would have the Reader observe, that until the hour of the evening sacrifice, the man of God expressed the perturbations of his mind in humble silence. Neither the rending of the garment, nor the man...
_A HEAVY-HEARTED LEADER_ ‘My Heaviness.’ Ezra 9:5 I. 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...
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...
AND AT THE EVENING SACRIFICE I ROSE UP FROM MY HEAVINESS,.... The signs and tokens of it, particularly sitting on the ground; or "from my fasting" n, having eaten nothing that day, it being early in t...
And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God, Ver. 5. _I arose up from my he...
_I rose up from my heaviness_ From that mournful posture, and put myself into the posture of a petitioner. He did this at the time of the evening sacrifice, because then devout people used to come int...
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...
Ezra's Confession of the People's Sin...
And at the evening sacrifice, about the middle of the afternoon, I AROSE UP FROM MY HEAVINESS, from the stupor which had benumbed him; and HAVING RENT MY GARMENT AND MY MANTLE, once more indicating hi...
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...
HEAVINESS: Or, affliction...
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...
FROM MY HEAVINESS, i.e. from that mournful posture, EZRA 8:4, and put myself into the posture of a petitioner. Or, BY REASON OF MY HEAVINESS, OR AFFLICTION. Having mourned for the sin, I considered th...
Ezra 9:5 evening H6153 sacrifice H4503 arose H6965 (H8804) fasting H8589 torn H7167 (H8800) garment H899 robe...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
§ 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...
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...
1 Kings 8:22; 1 Kings 8:38; 1 Kings 8:54; 2 Chronicles 6:13; Acts 21:5
Heaviness — From that mournful posture, and put myself into the posture of a petitioner. He did this at the time of the evening sacrifice, because then devout people used to come into the courts of th...