What does Ezra 10:10 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have takenc strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel."
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...
TRESPASS. Hebrew. _'ashah._ See note on Ezra 9:6....
_Ezra the priest_ See note on Ezra 7:11. _Ye have transgressed_ R.V. YE HAVE TRESPASSED, as in Ezra 10:2; Ezra 10:6; Ezra 9:4 and Nehemiah 1:8; Nehemiah 13:27. It is best to keep -transgress" and -tr...
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...
_AND EZRA THE PRIEST STOOD UP, AND SAID UNTO THEM, YE HAVE TRANSGRESSED, AND HAVE TAKEN STRANGE WIVES, TO INCREASE THE TRESPASS OF ISRAEL._ Ezra the priest stood up and said. Having fully represented...
THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE DIVORCED 3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1, which required a bill of divorcement....
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 thing...
(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...
וַ יָּ֨קָם עֶזְרָ֤א הַ כֹּהֵן֙ וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֔ם אַתֶּ֣ם מְעַלְתֶּ֔ם וַ תֹּשִׁ֖יבוּ נָשִׁ֣ים נָכְרִיֹּ֑ות
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 Ez...
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...
And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to (g) increase the trespass of Israel. (g) You have laid one sin on another....
No doubt the hand of the Lord was upon them, and with them, so that grace triumphed over nature, that all the people, as the heart of one man consented unto the thing. Oh! how delightful is it, when g...
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 EZRA THE PRIEST STOOD UP,.... In the midst of the assembly to make his speech, acquainting them with the reason of their meeting together: AND SAID UNTO THEM, YE HAVE TRANSGRESSED; the law of God...
And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel. Ver. 10. _We have transgressed_] We have disloyally, or rathe...
[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...
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...
HAVE TAKEN: _ Heb._ have caused to dwell, or have brought back...
6-14 There is hope concerning people, when they are convinced, not only that it is good to part with their sins, but that it is necessary; we must do it, or we are undone. So rich is the mercy, and so...
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Ezra 10:10 Ezra H5830 priest H3548 up H6965 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) transgressed H4603 (H8804) taken H3427 (H8686) pagan H5237 wives H802 adding H3254 (H8687) guilt H819 Israel H3478 to increase - E...
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 win...
_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 10:3). Ezra seeks a solution (vv. Ezra 10:6),...
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 front of the temple, where the...
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...
2 Chronicles 28:13; Ezra 9:6; Joshua 22:17; Joshua 22:18; Matthew 23:32; Numbers 32:14...
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 “addi...