Ezra 10:18-44
descendants ............. descendants .... son <01121> [the sons.]
Jeshua <03442> [Jeshua.]
[Joshua. Maaseiah.]
gave ... word <03027 05414> [gave their hands.]
They bound themselves in the most solemn manner to do as the rest of the delinquents had done, and make and acknowledgment to God of their iniquity, by offering each a ram for a trespass offering.
ram <0352> [a ram.]
Immer <0564> [Immer.]
Harim <02766> [Harim.]
Pashhur <06583> [Pashur.]
Jozabad <03107> [Jozabad.]
Kelita <07042> [Kelita.]
Israelites <03478> [Moreover of Israel.]
That is, as Calmet observes, simple Israelites; thus distinguished from the priests, Levites, and singers, mentioned in ver. 18, 23, 24.
descendants ... Parosh <06551 01121> [sons of Parosh.]
Elam <05867> [Elam.]
Jehiel <03171> [Jehiel.]
Zattu <02240> [Zattu.]
Bebai <0893> [Bebai.]
Bani <01137> [Bani.]
[Binnui. Malluch.]
Pahath-Moab <06355> [Pahath-moab.]
Harim <02766> [Harim.]
Malkijah <04441> [Malchiah.]
This variation only exists in the translation, the original being uniformly Malchijah, or rather, Malkeeyah.
[Malchijah.]
Hashum <02828> [Hashum.]
Bani <01137> [Bani.]
Machnadebai <04367> [Machnadebai. or, Mabnadebai, according to some copies.]
Nebo <05015> [Nebo.]
foreign wives ........... women <05237 0802> [strange wives.]
some <03426> [and some of them.]
This observation was probably intended to shew that only a few of them had children, and also how rigorously the law was put in execution. According to a passage in Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho, a Jew, Ezra offered a paschal lamb on this occasion, and addressed the people thus: "And Ezra said to the people, This pass-over is our Saviour and our Refuge; and if ye will be persuaded of it, and let it enter into your hearts, that we are to humble to Him in a sign, and afterwards shall believe in Him, this place shall not be destroyed for ever, saith the Lord of hosts; but, if ye will not believe in Him, nor hearken to his preaching, ye shall be a laughing-stock to the Gentiles." This was probably a marginal note added by some early Christian. CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE BOOK OF EZRA. This book details the events of a very interesting period of the Sacred History, when, according to the decree of Providence, the Jewish people were to be delivered from their captivity, at the expiration of seventy years, and restored to the land of their fathers. This book informs us how the Divine goodness accomplished this most gracious design, and the movers and agents He employed on the occasion. Ezra was undoubtedly the chief agent under God in effecting this arduous work; and his zeal, piety, knowledge, and discretion, appear here in a most conspicuous point of view, and claim our utmost admiration. Descended from Seraiah, in a direct line from Aaron, he seems to have united all the requisites of a profound statesmen with the functions of the sacerdotal character. He appears to have made the Sacred Scriptures, during the captivity, his peculiar study; and, perhaps assisted by Nehemiah and the great synagogue, he corrected the errors which had crept into the Sacred Writings, through the negligence or mistake of transcribers; he collected all the books of which the Sacred Scriptures then consisted, disposed them in their proper order, and settled the canon of Scriptures for his time; he occasionally added, under the dictation of the Holy Spirit, whatever appeared necessary for the purpose of illustrating, completing, or connecting them; he substituted the modern for the ancient names of some places, which had now become obsolete; and transcribed the whole of the Scriptures into the Chaldee character. He is said to have lived to the age of 120 years, and, according to Josephus, was buried in Jerusalem; but the Jews believe he died in Persia, in a second journey to Artaxerxes, where his tomb is shown in the city of Zamusa. Though not styled a prophet, he wrote under the Divine Spirit; and the canonical authority of his book has never been disputed. It is written with all the spirit and fidelity that could be displayed by a writer of contemporary times; and those parts which chiefly consist of letters, decrees, etc., are written in Chaldee, because it seemed more suitable to the fidelity of a sacred historian to give these official documents, as they may be termed, in the original language, especially as the people, recently returned from the captivity, were familiar, and perhaps more conversant with the Chaldee, than with the Hebrew.
Exodus 34:16
Deuteronomy 7:1-4
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
Hittites <02850> [the Hittites.]
With respect to the situation of these nations in the land of Canaan, Calmet remarks, that the Canaanites chiefly inhabited Phoenecia; the Hittites, the mountains south of the promised land; the Hivites, mount Ebal, and Gerizim, and towards Hermon; the Girgashites, beyond Jordan, towards the lake of Gennesareth, the Jebusistes, about Jerusalem; the Amorites, the mountains west of the Dead Sea, and part of the land of Moab; and that the Perizzites were probably not a distinct nation, but villagers scattered through the country.
many ................ numerous <07227> [greater.]
over <05414> [deliver.]
utterly annihilate <02763> [utterly.]
Make ... treaty <03772 01285> [make no.]
anger <0639> [so will.]
Nehemiah 13:23-24
Ammon <03427> [married. Heb. made to dwell with them.]
Ashdod <0796> [Ashdod.]
Ammon <05984> [Ammon.]
spoke .................. unable ... speak <01696 05234> [could not speak. Heb. they discerned not to speak. each people. Heb. people and people.]
Malachi 2:11
unspeakable sins <08441> [and an.]
profaned <02490> [profaned.]
loves <0157> [loved. or, ought to love. and hath.]
