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Ezra 10:15 KJV
Ezra · chapter 10 · verse 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.Ezra 10:15 · King James Version
Ezra 10:15 in context
13But 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.
14Let 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.
15Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
16And 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.
17And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ShabbethaiShabbᵉthayShabbethai, the name of three IsraelitesH7678 →
- MeshullamMᵉshullâmMeshullam, the name of seventeen IsraelitesH4918 →
- JonathanYôwnâthânJonathan, the name of ten IsraelitesH3129 →
- JahaziahYachzᵉyâhJachzejah, an IsraeliteH3167 →
- employedʻâmadto stand, in various relationsH5975 →
- AsahelʻĂsâhʼêlAsahel, the name of four IsraelitesH6214 →
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The method of proceeding in this matter being concluded on, and the congregation dismissed, that each in his respective place might gain and give intelligence to facilitate the matter, we are here told, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-44