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Ezra 10:2 KJV
Ezra · chapter 10 · verse 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.Ezra 10:2 · King James Version
Ezra 10:2 in context
1Now 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.
2And 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.
3Now 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.
4Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ShechaniahShᵉkanyâhShekanjah, the name of nine IsraelitesH7935 →
- trespassedmâʻalproperly, to cover upH4603 →
- answeredʻânâhproperly, to eye or to heedH6030 →
- JehielYᵉchîyʼêlJechiel , the name of eight IsraelitesH3171 →
- takenyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- ElamʻÊylâmElam, a son of Shem and his descendants, with their countryH5867 →
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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…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5