Ezra 9:12 - Exposition

Give not your daughters, etc. Here Deuteronomy 7:3 is plainly referred to, though not verbally quoted. This is the sole place in the Law where the double injunction is given, Exodus 34:16 referring to the taking of wives only. Nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever. So Moses had enjoined with special reference to the Moabites and Ammonites ( Deuteronomy 23:6 ). With regard to the other idolatrous nations, the exact command was "to make no covenant with them" ( Exodus 23:32 ; Exodus 34:12 ), i.e. no terms of peace. Much the same was probably meant by both injunctions. That ye may be strong. See Deuteronomy 11:8 . And eat the good of the land. These words are taken from Isaiah 1:19 . And leave it for an inheritance, etc. No single passage seems to be referred to here, but the clause embodies the idea found in Deuteronomy 11:9 ; Proverbs 10:27 ; Ezekiel 37:25 , and elsewhere.