John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezra 10:1-44
The Foreign Wives are Divorced3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1-2, which required a bill of divorcement. 5. The chief priests] RV ’the chiefs of the priests’: see 2 Chronicles 36:14.6. Johanan] If the Eliashib meant is the contemporary of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 13:4, Nehemiah 13:7) and Johanan was really his grandson (not his son, see Nehemiah 12:22), he must have lived a long while after Ezra, and consequently the description of the chamber, here alluded to, as the chamber of Johanan... read more
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezra 10:16-44
The completion of the proceedings 10:16-44The people were able to complete the divorce proceedings in three months (Ezra 10:9; Ezra 10:17). A total of 113 Israelites had married and now divorced their foreign wives, only a small fraction of the total number of Jews then living in Judah. Of these, 16 were priests and 10 were Levites, about 25 percent of the total 113. Perhaps no Jewish women had married any Gentile men. A more likely possibility is that since women could not divorce their... read more