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Ezra 9:2 KJV
Ezra · chapter 9 · verse 2
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.Ezra 9:2 · King James Version
Ezra 9:2 in context
1Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
2For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
3And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
4Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- daughtersbatha daughterH1323 →
- mingledʻârabto braidH6148 →
- princessara head personH8269 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- takennâsâʼto lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relativeH5375 →
- landsʼeretsthe earthH776 →
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Ezra, like Barnabas when he came to Jerusalem and saw the grace of God to his brethren there, no doubt was glad, and exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave to the Lord, Act 11:23. He saw nothing amiss (many corruptions lurk out of the view of the most vigilant rulers);
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-4