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Ezra 10
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Ezra 10:1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had 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.
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Note the change to the third person
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God = Hebrew word = Elohim = with Art the true
God.
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Congregation = assembly
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Children = little ones
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Wept very sore = a great weeping
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 hope in Israel concerning this thing.
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Here = confessed and said
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Trespassed = acted treacherously
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People = peoples.
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In = for
3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away 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.
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According to the law = Deuteronomy 24:1 When a
man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it
come to pass that she find no favour in his
eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in
her: then let him write her a bill of
divorcement, and give it in her hand,
and send her out of his house.
2 And when she is departed out of his house,
she may go and be another man's wife.
4 Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of
good courage, and do it.
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Arise = It would seem that Ezra continued
kneeling
5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to
swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.
6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of
Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor
drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been
carried away.
7 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the
children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto
Jerusalem;
8 And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel
of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and
himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.
9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto
Jerusalem within three days. It was the 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 rain.
10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and
have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
11 Now therefore 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.
12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast
said, so must we do.
13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able
to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that
have transgressed in this thing.
14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, 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.
15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed
about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
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, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to
examine the matter.
17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the
first day of the first month.
18 And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange
wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren;
Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
19 And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being
guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
20 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.
21 And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and
Uzziah.
22 And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad,
and Elasah.
23 Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,)
Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
24 Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and
Uri.
25 Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah,
and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
26 And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and
Jeremoth, and Eliah.
27 And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and
Zabad, and Aziza.
28 Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.
29 And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal,
and Ramoth.
30 And of the sons of Pahath–moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah,
Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
31 And of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
32 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
33 Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai,
Manasseh, and Shimei.
34 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,
36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,
38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
39 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
41 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
43 Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel,
Benaiah.
44 All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they
had children.
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Strange = foreign
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Thus ends the first part of this book
"Ezra-Nehemiah"; not abruptly; as it is followed
by the second part, which is concerned mainly
with the rebuilding of the city and the walls,
instead of with the Temple.
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The incidents recorded in had taken place before
the first return under Zerubbabel
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Nehemiah 1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of
Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month
Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in
Shushan the palace,
2 That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and
certain men of Judah; and I asked them
concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were
left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are
left of the captivity there in the province are
in great affliction and reproach: the wall of
Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates
thereof are burned with fire.
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Nehemiah 7:4 Now the city was large and great:
but the people were few therein, and the houses
were not builded.
5 And my God put into mine heart to gather
together the nobles, and the rulers, and the
people, that they might be reckoned by
genealogy. And I found a register of the
genealogy of them which came up at the first,
and found written therein,
6 These are the children of the province, that
went up out of the captivity, of those that had
been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king
of Babylon had carried away, and came again to
Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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