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Ezra
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Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly. See also: Daniel 9:20Psalms 119:136Romans 9:2Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing. See also: Nehemiah 13:27Ezra 9:2Exodus 34:12Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law. See also: Deuteronomy 7:2-3Ezra 9:4Joshua 23:12-13Arise, for the matter belongs to you and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.” See also: 1 Chronicles 28:10Ecclesiastes 9:10Hebrews 10:24Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore. See also: Nehemiah 13:25Nehemiah 5:12Matthew 26:63Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he didn’t eat bread or drink water, for he mourned because of the trespass of the exiles. See also: Deuteronomy 9:18John 4:31-34Nehemiah 3:1They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem; See also: Ezra 1:12 Chronicles 30:5and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and he himself separated from the assembly of the captivity. See also: Ezra 7:26John 9:22John 9:34Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain. See also: 1 Samuel 12:17-18Jeremiah 10:10Esther 2:16Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel. See also: Matthew 23:32Ezra 9:62 Chronicles 28:13Now therefore make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his pleasure. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.” See also: Romans 12:2Proverbs 28:13Deuteronomy 7:3-4Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “We must do as you have said concerning us. See also: Nehemiah 13:23Psalms 78:37Ezra 10:3-4But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter. See also: Ezra 10:18-44Matthew 7:13-14Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.” See also: 2 Chronicles 30:82 Chronicles 29:10Numbers 25:4Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. See also: Nehemiah 11:16Nehemiah 10:20Nehemiah 3:6The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. See also: Job 29:16Deuteronomy 13:14John 7:51They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month. Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. See also: Ezra 5:2Haggai 1:1Ezra 2:2They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt. See also: Leviticus 6:62 Kings 10:15Leviticus 5:15-16Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah. See also: Ezra 2:371 Chronicles 24:14Nehemiah 7:40Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah. See also: 1 Chronicles 24:8Nehemiah 7:42Ezra 2:39Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah. See also: 1 Chronicles 9:12Ezra 2:38Nehemiah 7:41Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. See also: Ezra 8:33Nehemiah 11:16Nehemiah 10:10Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri. Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah. See also: Ezra 2:3Nehemiah 7:8Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah. See also: Ezra 10:2Nehemiah 7:12Ezra 8:7Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza. See also: Ezra 2:8Nehemiah 7:13Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai. See also: Nehemiah 7:16Ezra 2:11Ezra 8:11Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth. See also: Nehemiah 7:15Ezra 2:10Nehemiah 10:4Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh. See also: Ezra 8:4Nehemiah 7:11Ezra 2:6Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, See also: Nehemiah 3:11Ezra 2:32Nehemiah 7:35Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah. Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei. See also: Nehemiah 7:22Ezra 2:19Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel, Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi, Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu, Bani, Binnui, Shimei, Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah, Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah, Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph. Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, Joel, and Benaiah. See also: Ezra 2:29Nehemiah 7:33All these had taken foreign wives. Some of them had wives by whom they had children. See also: Proverbs 2:16Ezra 10:3Proverbs 5:20
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)14 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Ezra 10:1
Ver. 1. God, in the court of the people, before the eastern gate.
↑ 1Ezra 10:2
Ver. 2. Sechenias. 3 Esd. calls him "Jechoias." See C. viii. 5. The name of Sechenias is not found among the transgressors; (v. 20.) but that of Jehiel is, v. 26. It seems, however, that the former returned with Esdras, and speaks in the name of the people, to encourage them to confess their guilt, (C.) unless his name be omitted. M. --- Repentance. Heb. "yet there is hope, (Prot.) or an assembly of Israel." Du Dieu.
↑ 2Ezra 10:3
Ver. 3. Covenant. The marrying with strange women seemed to have annulled the covenant of God. --- Of them. The children were to follow the mothers, as in other unlawful connections.
Their being suffered to remain behind, might have had dangerous consequences. C. --- The custom of divorcing was then in force, (T.) and the Jews looked upon all as null, which was done contrary to the law; (V. Bede. E.
C. Grot.) though here the law was only prohibitory. Cajet. T.
--- As all was directed by the will of God, the dictates of humanity would not be disregarded (C.) on this trying occasion. H. --- The children migth be placed in houses for education. Cajet. T.
↑ 3Ezra 10:4
Ver. 4. Thy part. The high priest not acting, (M.) Esdras was appointed chief, (H.) and his abilities were universally acknowledged. C.
↑ 4Ezra 10:6
Ver. 6. Before. 3 Esd. "the court or hall of the temple." H. --- Eliasib. His son and successor is styled Joiada. 2 Esd. xii. 10. The same person had often many names, (C.) or Johanan might be a younger son. M. --- Josephus (xi. 5.) says, that Esdras went to the apartments of John and Eliasib. H. --- Esdras, though sent extraordinarily by God, repairs to the son of the priest, as S.
Paul conferred with other apostles. Gal. ii. W.
↑ 6Ezra 10:8
Ver. 8. Away. Heb. and Sept. "subjected to anathema," (C.) and utterly destroyed; (H.) or, according to some editions of the Sept. and Josephus,
"consecrated to the temple." Esdras exercised the power which had been entrusted to him. C. vii. 16.
↑ 8Ezra 10:9
Ver. 9. Ninth. Casleu, (Zac. vii. 1.) which corresponds with our November and December. M.
--- Street. Court, which afforded as yet no shelter from the rain. C. --- This would tend to punish them for their sin, and to make them more sensible to it.
W.
↑ 9Ezra 10:11
Ver. 11. Confession. Sept. "give praise;" which is done by repentance and virtue. M. --- Confess your faults, and submit to the justice of God. Jos. vii. 19.
C.
↑ 11Ezra 10:14
Ver. 14. Cities. It is not clear whether the rulers went to the different cities, or the principal men of each gave information, and caused the guilty to appear before Esdras, at Jerusalem. H.
↑ 14Ezra 10:16
Ver. 16. So. Cajetan improperly concludes, that the sentence was not put in execution; because Nehemias (C. xiii. 23.) complains of such marriages. C. ---
But the guilty might have resumed their women. H. --- Went. Heb. "were separated." H. --- By making a small change, we may translate, with 3 Esd.
"and Esdras separated or chose the men." Josephus seems generally to have followed the Greek of 3 Esd. The Syriac says there were 20 judges.
↑ 16Ezra 10:19
Ver. 19. Hands. Thus the Persians confirmed their most solemn engagements.
C.
↑ 19Ezra 10:25
Ver. 25. Israel. Laymen, (C.) not of the tribe of Levi. M.
↑ 25Ezra 10:30
Ver. 30. Moab. The inhabitants of this town, as well as of Nebo, (v. 43.) are specified.
↑ 30Ezra 10:44
Ver. 44. Children. Heb. may be, "and some of these women had exposed their children." But most follow the Sept. and Vulg. 3 Esd. ix. 36, "and they ejected them with their children." None was spared. C. --- One great inconvenience of such connections is, that the offspring is illegitimate. W. --- Only 17 priests, 10
Levites, and 86 laymen, are stigmatized as guilty of this scandal; yet these fill Israel with confusion, and Esdras with extreme affliction. H.
↑ 44License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses