Ezra 10:19
in Ezra 10Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
KJV
And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.
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This verse in Ezra 10
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAnd they gave their hands, to cast out their wives, etc. First, they reject the illicit wives from themselves, and thus they offer a ram for themselves, so that, with the crime removed, they could approach the altar in purity. Indeed, it is difficult for …
This site's exposition
among the sons of the priests there were found
on Ezra 10:18-22
The list opens where it is hardest to read, among the sons of the priests, and the family of the high priest Jeshua is named first: even the household nearest the altar was not exempt. Each guilty priest gives his hand, a pledge to put his wife away, and offers a ram of the flock as a trespass offering, atonement set alongside a confession that did not by itself settle the matter. Four priestly houses appear in these verses, and the roll's own order, priests named before any other class, argues where the reckoning began.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives,.... They proposed to do it, and actually did it: and being guilty; of which they were fully convinced: they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass; to make atonement for it, and thereby set an example to others to do the like. Aben Ezra observes, that we do not find that the trespass offering was a mulct to such who married strange wives, and conjectures, that it was the advice of the chief men to do it.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּתְּנ֥וּ | vaiyitenu | and they gave | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| יָדָ֖ם | yadam | hand their | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| לְהוֹצִ֣יא | lehotzi' | to send out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| נְשֵׁיהֶ֑ם | nesheihem | wives their | H802 → | 781 times |
| וַאֲשֵׁמִ֥ים | vaashemim | and [being] guilty | H818 → | |
| אֵֽיל־ | ʾeil- | a ram of | H352 → | |
| צֹ֖אן | tzon | [the] flock | H6629 → | |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| אַשְׁמָתָֽם׃ ס | ʾashmatam | guilt their | H819 → | 19 times |
וַיִּתְּנ֥וּand they gave
vaiyitenuH5414 →2011 times
יָדָ֖םhand their
yadamH3027 →1618 times
לְהוֹצִ֣יאto send out
lehotzi'H3318 →1067 times
נְשֵׁיהֶ֑םwives their
nesheihemH802 →781 times
וַאֲשֵׁמִ֥יםand [being] guilty
vaashemimH818 →
אֵֽיל־a ram of
ʾeil-H352 →
צֹ֖אן[the] flock
tzonH6629 →
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
אַשְׁמָתָֽם׃ סguilt their
ʾashmatamH819 →19 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Kings 10:15When he left there, he found Jehonadab son of Rechab, who was coming to meet him. Jehu greeted him and asked, “Is your heart as true to mine as my heart is to yours?”…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 17:18
He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 35:14–19
The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the…
- 1 Chronicles 2:55
Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, half the Manahathites, the Zorites, and the clans of the scribes who lived at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of…
- Ezekiel 17:18
Through
Galatians 2:9And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and…
it leads to
- Romans 12:3
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure…
- Revelation 3:12
The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the…
- Ephesians 3:8
Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
- Galatians 2:2
I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders, for fear that I was running…
- Romans 12:3
Through
Leviticus 6:6Then he must bring to the priest his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock.
it leads to
- Leviticus 5:15
“If someone acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s holy things, he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock, of proper value in silver…
- Leviticus 5:15
About Ezra
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).