Ezra 10:17
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What does Ezra 10:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month."
What does Ezra 10:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month."
Verse 17. _THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH_] So they were _three_ _whole months_ in examining into this affair, and making those _separations_ which the law required....
The business occupied the commission full two months. In some cases, it may be presumed, they had to summon persons before them who did not wish to part with their foreign wives; in all, they had to a...
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...
THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH. See note on Genesis 8:13. Ezra's last date. The commission, therefore, sat for eighty-eight days....
_And they made an end with all the men_, &c. The Hebrew runs -And they made an end with the whole (business), i.e. the men that had, &c." The English rendering expresses the meaning. But the wording o...
4. The decision is carried out. TEXT, EZRA 10:16-19 16 But the exiles did so. And Ezra the priest selected men who were heads of fathers-' households for each of their fathers-' households, all of...
_AND THE CHILDREN OF THE CAPTIVITY DID SO. AND EZRA THE PRIEST, WITH CERTAIN CHIEF OF THE FATHERS, AFTER THE HOUSE OF THEIR FATHERS, AND ALL OF THEM BY THEIR NAMES, WERE SEPARATED, AND SAT DOWN IN THE...
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 יְכַלּ֣וּ בַ † כֹּ֔ל אֲנָשִׁ֕ים הַ הֹשִׁ֖יבוּ נָשִׁ֣ים נָכְרִיֹּ֑ות עַ֛ד יֹ֥ום אֶחָ֖ד לַ †
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...
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 circumstanc...
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 THEY MADE AN END WITH ALL THE MEN THAT HAD TAKEN STRANGE WIVES,.... Finished their inquiry and examination of them: BY THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH; the month Nisan, answering to part of Marc...
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month. Ver. 17. _By the first day of the first month_] So that it was not the work of one day or two,...
_Ezra the priest, &c., were separated, and sat down_ Sequestered themselves from all other business, and gave themselves wholly to this. _They made an end, by the first day of the first month_ Three m...
[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...
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...
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Ezra 10:17 first H259 day H3117 first H7223 month H2320 finished H3615 (H8762) men H582 taken H3427 (H8689) pagan H5237 wives H802...
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...
FIRST MONTH That is, April....
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...
Ezra 10:17...
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...