The Holy Ghost hath thought proper to be particular in stating the precise time this great reform took to make it effectual and complete. Mark, Reader! how attentive the Lord is to all the circumstances of his people. He telleth the wanderings of his people; he putteth their tears into his bottle; they are noticed is his book. Psalms 56:8.
Some translate it: “Nevertheless, Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah opposed this.” The opposition was useless Ezra 10:16....
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The effect of Ezra's prayer on the people (Ezra 10:1)_ 2. Ezra summons an assembly (Ezra 10:5) 3. The gathering, confession and the evil judged (Ezra 10:9) 4. The register of those...
THE JEWS ASSEMBLE IN JERUSALEM; OFFICERS ARE APPOINTED FROM EACH CITY TO SEE THAT THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE PUT AWAY. Ezra 10:6. Jehohanan: _cf._ Nehemiah 12:13. AND WHEN HE CAME THITHER: read, and he lo...
ONLY. But, or. Nevertheless. TIKVAH. Compare 2 Kings 22:14 and 1Ch 34:22. WERE EMPLOYED, &C.. superintended [the business]....
Slight opposition. _Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this_matter] R.V. STOOD UP AGAINST (Marg. Or, _were appointed over_) THIS matter. The word -onl...
3. The decision is accepted by all, in the assembly. TEXT, EZRA 10:9-15 9 So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth...
_ONLY JONATHAN THE SON OF ASAHEL AND JAHAZIAH THE SON OF TIKVAH WERE EMPLOYED ABOUT THIS MATTER: AND MESHULLAM AND SHABBETHAI THE LEVITE HELPED THEM._ Shabbethai - Sabbath-born: cf. Nehemiah 8:7; Neh...
10:15 against (b-15) Others 'stood over.'...
THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE DIVORCED 3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1, which required a bill of divorcement....
WERE EMPLOYED ABOUT] RV 'stood up against.' The opposition was not really strong. 16, 17. THE TENTH MONTH.. THE FIRST] i.e. Tebeth (=Dec.-Jan.) and Nisan (=Mar.-Apr.)....
THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM EZRA _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 10 V1 Ezra prayed and he confessed. He wept and he threw himself onto the ground in front of the house of God. As he was doing these thin...
(7-17) Conference of the people and commission to try individual cases. (8) FORFEITED. — This, as also what precedes and what follows, again recalls the express commission of Ezra 7. But “according to...
אַ֣ךְ יֹונָתָ֧ן בֶּן ־עֲשָׂהאֵ֛ל וְ יַחְזְיָ֥ה...
THE HOME SACRIFICED TO THE CHURCH Ezra 10:1 EZRA'S narrative, written in the first person, ceases with his prayer, the conclusion of which brings us to the end of the ninth chapter of our Book of Ezr...
PUTTING AWAY STRANGE MARRIAGES Ezra 10:1 The people seem to have been more impressed by Ezra's intense grief of soul than they could have been by his severest condemnation. Is not this the secret of...
The sincerity and passion of Ezra's vicarious repentance produced immediate results. The people had gathered about him through the long hours of the day, and it would seem that they became conscious o...
CHAPTER X....
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...
ONLY JONATHAN THE SON OF ASAHEL, AND JAHAZIAH THE SON OF TIKVAH, WERE EMPLOYED ABOUT THE MATTER,.... To see that this affair was conducted in the manner proposed; that the magistrates of every city br...
Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this [matter]: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. Ver. 15. _Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Ja...
_Only Jonathan and Jahaziah were employed_ To take care that the business should be executed in the manner proposed, that the officers and delinquents of every city should come successively, in conven...
[ORDER TAKEN FOR STRANGE MARIAGES.] 1 Shechaniah encourageth Ezra to reforme the strange mariages. 6 Ezra mourning, assembleth the people. 9 The people at the exhortation of Ezra, repent and promis...
Only Jonathan, the son of Asahel, and Jahaziah, the son of Tikvah, were employed about this matter, literally, "stood against this thing," they withstood the proposed resolution; AND MESHULLAM AND SHA...
Ezra's Reform Measures Adopted...
ACTION FOLLOWING PRAYER (vv. 1-17) Ezra expected an answer to his prayer, and God provided the answer immediately in moving a very huge number of men, women and children to gather together before Hi...
WERE EMPLOYED: _ Heb._ stood...
15-44 The best reformers can but do their endeavour; when the Redeemer himself shall come to Zion, he shall effectually turn away ungodliness from Jacob. And when sin is repented of and forsaken, God...
To wit, to take due care that the business should be executed in the manner proposed, that the officers and delinquents of every city should come successively in convenient time and order, as these sh...
Ezra 10:15 Jonathan H3129 son H1121 Asahel H6214 Jahaziah H3167 son H1121 Tikvah H8616 opposed H5975 (H8804) Meshullam
Ezra 10:7 ‘And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem,' Ezra having retired to pray, the...
CONTENTS: Separation restored. Strange wives surrendered. CHARACTERS: God, Ezra, Shecaniah, Jonanan. CONCLUSION: There is hope concerning people when they are convinced not only that it is good to p...
Ezra 10:6. _When he came._ It should read, _till he came thither,_ as appears from chap. Ezra 9:4, and at a late hour after the evening devotion. Ezra 10:9. _It was the ninth month,_ the depth of wint...
_But the people are many._ THE REFORMATION EFFECTED I. notwith standing difficulties. 1. The greatness of the undertaking. 2. The inclemency of the weather. Learn: To eradicate sin is a task of th...
_Now when Ezra had prayed._ PRAYER AND CONFESSION The former chapter did set down the humiliation of Ezra; this demonstrates the fruit and effect that it produced. When the people saw that he was so...
EZRA 10:1 The People Agree to Dissolve the Marriages. Ezra prays, and the people confess their sin (vv. Ezra 10:1). They agree to do God’s will (vv. Ezra 1
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] In this chapter we have the account of—(i.) Shechaniah’s proposal to put away the strange wives (Ezra 10:1). (ii.) Ezra’s fast because of the people’s sin (Ezra 10:6)....
EXPOSITION REPENTANCE OF THE PEOPLE, AND COVENANT SWORN TO, ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF SHECHANIAH (Ezra 10:1). While Ezra was uttering his prayer aloud, upon his knees, in f
But here a very stringent and harsh measure was taken. They put away all of these wives, and they said unto him with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do (Ezra 10:12). They realized that it...
Nehemiah 10:20; Nehemiah 11:16; Nehemiah 12:33; Nehemiah 3:6...
Employed — To take care that the business should be executed in the manner proposed, that the officers and delinquents of every city should come successively in convenient time and order, as these sho...
Why did God command Israelite men to put away their unbelieving wives, but Paul said not to do so? PROBLEM: Ezra made all the returning Israelites put away their “pagan wives” because they were “addin...