Ezra 10:3-Nehemiah 10:32 NIV

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 10:3

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God ,.... Renew our covenant with him, and lay ourselves under fresh obligation by promise and oath, and unanimously agree to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them ; he means all the strange wives, such marriages being unlawful; and such wives might the more easily be put away, since bills of divorce were in frequent use with the Jews, and the children of such also being illegitimate; and the rather they were to be put away,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezra 10:3

Let us make a covenant - ברית נכרת nichrath berith , let us cut or divide the covenant sacrifice. See the notes on Genesis 15:10 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezra 10:1-5

A gleam of hope. The only trace of comfort in Ezra's previous prayer ( Ezra 9:6-15 ) was of a negative kind. Notwithstanding all the aggravated evil which he had had to confess, the people were not destroyed. That, at least, could be said, "We remain yet escaped." That being the case, "who can tell" (see Jonah 3:9 ) what it may please God to do for us? In the present passage this little suspicion of light becomes a positive ray of encouragement, gradually bringing before us I. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezra 10:1-5

The speech of Shechaniah. Ezra was a very remarkable man. He represented the Persian court as governor in Judaea. But this was the least feature of his distinction. He was a man of the most exemplary piety, a very profound scholar, and withal the subject of Divine inspiration. When it was noised in the city that such a man had rent his clothes, there was naturally a vast concourse of people. In the presence of this assembly he offered his prayer to God, in the whole of which there is not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezra 10:1-8

Things exceptional. Human life is a river which flows evenly along from day to day; but it is a river like the Zambesi or the Congo (Livingstone), not without its rapids and its falls. Usually it flows silently, but sometimes it dashes along with impetuosity and uproar. So is it with our Christian life, with our religious course. There are things exceptional as well as things ordinary and regular, for which room must be made by ourselves and allowance by other people. There may be, as here... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezra 10:1-44

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezra 10:3

Now therefore let us make a covenant. Shechaniah had probably in his thoughts the (comparatively) recent covenant which the people had made in the reign of Zedekiah ( Jeremiah 34:15 ) on the subject of releasing their Hebrew slaves after six years of servitude. That covenant was entered into before God, in the temple, by the princes and all the people ( ibid. Ezra 10:10 ). To put away all the wives . Shechaniah probably held that marriages made contrary to the law were not merely... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezra 10:3

Let it be done according to the law - i. e., let a formal “bill of divorcement” be given to each foreign wife, whereby she will be restored to the condition of an unmarried woman, and be free to marry another husband (see Deuteronomy 24:1-2). The facility of divorce among the Jews is well-known. According to many of the rabbis, a bill of divorcement might he given by the husband for the most trivial cause. Thus, no legal difficulty stood in the way of Shechaniah’s proposition; and Ezra regarded... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 10:3

Ezra 10:3. To put away all the wives, and such as are born of them If this seem to any to have been an act of great severity, if not injustice, “let it be observed that the law (Deuteronomy 7:1, &c.) was express, and enforced with weighty reasons against these pagan marriages; and, therefore, since whatever is done contrary to law is, ipso facto, null and void, these marriages with idolatrous women, which were strictly forbidden by God, were, properly speaking, no marriages at all;... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezra 10:1-5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezra 10:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezra 10:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezra 10:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezra 10:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezra 10:1-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezra 10:1-44

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezra 10:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezra 10:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezra 10:3

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