Ezra 10:6

_THEN EZRA ROSE UP FROM BEFORE THE HOUSE OF GOD, AND WENT INTO THE CHAMBER OF JOHANAN THE SON OF ELIASHIB: AND WHEN HE CAME THITHER, HE DID EAT NO BREAD, NOR DRINK WATER: FOR HE MOURNED BECAUSE OF THE TRANSGRESSION OF THEM THAT HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY._ Then Ezra ... went into the chamber of Johanan. At a private council of the princes and elders held there, under the presidency of Ezra, it was resolved to enter into a general covenant to put away their foreign wives and children-that a proclamation should be made for all who had returned from Babylon to repair within three days to Jerusalem, under pain of excommunication and confiscation of their property....

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 plenteous the redemption of God, that there is hope for the vilest who hear the gospel, and are willing to accept of free salvation. When sinners mourn for their sins, and tremble at the word of God, there is hope that they will forsake them. To affect others with godly sorrow or love to God, we must ourselves be affected. It was carefully agreed how this affair should be carried on. That which is hastily resolved on seldom proves lasting....

Verse Ezra 10:6. _JOHANAN THE SON OF ELIASHIB_] Eliashib was high priest, and was succeeded in that office by his son Joiada, Nehemiah 12:10. Probably _Johanan_ here is the same as _Jonathan_ in Nehemiah, who was the son of _Joiada_, and grandson of _Eliashib_. Some suppose that _Johanan_ and _Joiada_ were two names for the same person....

The “chamber of Johanan” was probably one of those attached externally to the temple (see 1 Kings 6:5). Eliashib was the grandson of Jeshua Ezra 3:2, and was high priest under Nehemiah Nehemiah 3:1. He could assign chambers in the temple to whomever he pleased (see Nehemiah 13:4)....

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 evening sacrifice was being offered upon the great brazen altar (Ezra 3:2), the people gathered about him, heard what he said, and had their feelings so stirred that numbers of them burst into tears and "wept very sore" (Ezra 10:1). When he had ended, Sheehaniah, the son of Jehiel, took the word, and suggested an

THEN EZRA ROSE UP FROM BEFORE THE HOUSE OF GOD,.... Departed from thence: AND WENT INTO THE CHAMBER OF JOHANAN THE SON OF ELIASHIB; who was of the family of the high priest. Eliashib was grandson of Joshua the high priest, and succeeded his father Joiakim as such; but though Johanan was never high priest, being a younger son, however he was a person of note, and had a chamber in the temple, whither Ezra went, either to advise with the princes and elders in it, Ezra 10:8 or to refresh himself with food: AND WHEN HE CAME THITHER, HE DID EAT NO BREAD, NOR DRINK WATER; or rather "not yet had he ate bread" o, as some render it; that is, not till he came thither, from the time he first heard of the evil the people had committed; which very probably was early in the morning, and it was now evening: for he mourned for the transgression of them that ha

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 who had married strange women (Ezra 10:18) Ezra 10:1. Ezra's prayer, confession and humiliation were before the house of the LORD.” The people saw his great sorrow and his tears, they heard his words confessing the nation's sins. It produced a wonderful effect among the people. “There assembled unto him out of Israel a great congregation of me

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 lodged there (_mg.), i.e._ spent the night there. Ezra 10:8. forfeited: devoted, _i.e._ put under a religious ban (see pp. 99, 114, Deuteronomy 2:34 * Joshua 6:17 *). SEPARATED FROM THE CONGREGATION: equivalent to the later put out of the synagogue; _cf._...

THEN EZRA ROSE UP. In response to Shechaniah. JOHANAN. The son of Eliashib, the high priest who succeeded Joiakim, the successor of Jeshua (Nehemiah 12:10; Nehemiah 12:23). CAME THITHER. According to Syriac and Arabic. "lodged (or spent the night) there". MOURNED. Compare the first occurance of Hebrew. _abal_. Genesis 37:34. TRANSGRESSION. unfaithfulness. Hebrew. _ma'al._ App-44. Compare Ezra 10:2; Ezra 10:10....

The Assembly and the Reform 6. _went into the chamber_ See on Ezra 8:29, and cf. Nehemiah 13:4. _Johanan the son of Eliashib_ R.V. JEHOHANAN THE SON OF ELIASHIB. The best-known Eliashib of this period is the High-priest who appears as a contemporary of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 13:4; Nehemiah 13:28). In Nehemiah 12:23 we find the mention of a -Johanan the son of Eliashib", but who, by comparison with...