Ezr 10:1
10:1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had {a} confessed,
     weeping and casting himself down before the house of God,
     there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great
     congregation of men and women and children: for the people
     wept very sore.

     (a) He confessed his sins, and the sins of the people.

Ezr 10:2
10:2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, [one] of the sons of
     Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed
     against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people
     of the land: yet now there is {b} hope in Israel concerning
     this thing.

     (b) Meaning, that God would receive them in mercy.

Ezr 10:3
10:3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put
     away {c} all the wives, and such as are born of them,
     according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that
     tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done
     according to the law.

     (c) Who are strangers and married contrary to the law of
         God.

Ezr 10:4
10:4 Arise; for [this] matter {d} [belongeth] unto thee: we also
     [will be] with thee: be of good courage, and do [it].

     (d) Because God has given you authority and learning to
         persuade the people in this and to command them.

Ezr 10:9
10:9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves
     together unto Jerusalem within three days. It [was] the {e}
     ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month; and all
     the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling
     because of [this] matter, and for the great {f} rain.

     (e) Which contained part of November and part of December.
     (f) For the season was given to rain and so the weather was
         more sharp and cold and also their conscience touched
         them.

Ezr 10:10
10:10 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.

Ezr 10:11
10:11 Now therefore {h} make confession unto the LORD God of
      your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves
      from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

      (h) Read @Jos 7:19.

Ezr 10:14
10:14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, {i} and
      let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities
      come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every
      city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of
      our God for this matter be turned from us.

      (i) Let them be appointed to examine this matter.

Ezr 10:16
10:16 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,
      {k} were separated, and sat down in the first day of the
      tenth month to examine the matter.

      (k) They went to the chief cities to sit on this matter
          which took three months to finish.

Ezr 10:19
10:19 And they gave {l} their hands that they would put away
      their wives; and [being] guilty, [they offered] a ram of
      the flock for their trespass.

      (l) As a token that they would keep their promise and do
          it.

Ezr 10:25
10:25 Moreover of {m} Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and
      Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and
      Malchijah, and Benaiah.

      (m) Meaning of the common people: for before he spoke of
          the priests and Levites.

Ezr 10:44
10:44 All these had taken strange wives: and [some] of them had
      wives by whom they had {n} children.

      (n) Who also were made illegitimate because the marriage
          was unlawful.



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