John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 10:2
And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra ,.... This man seems to be one of those that now came with Ezra from Babylon, see Ezra 8:3 , we have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land ; not that he had taken any himself, being but just come into the land, nor is his name in the list of those that had; but inasmuch as many of the nation, of which he was a part, and his own father, and several of his... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezra 10:1-5
We are here told, I. What good impressions were made upon the people by Ezra's humiliation and confession of sin. No sooner was it noised in the city that their new governor, in whom they rejoiced, was himself in grief, and to so great a degree, for them and their sin, than presently there assembled to him a very great congregation, to see what the matter was and to mingle their tears with his, Ezra 10:1. Our weeping for other people's sins may perhaps set those a weeping for them themselves... read more