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Ezra 10:2

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Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah · Written before 735.

And Sechenias responded, etc. Josephus says that this Sechenias was the first of the Jerusalemites, and he himself, as befits a leader, with the greatest authority, soon helped Ezra's intention, both by confessing that the people had sinned together with him, and by advising that …

This site's exposition

casting himself down before the house of God

on Ezra 10:1-3

Ezra's prayer draws the congregation to him before he asks anything of them: men, women and children gather while he still lies before the house of God, and their weeping becomes an assembly's grief before it becomes a plan. Shechaniah speaks first among the people, not as one of the guilty, since his own name never appears in the list that follows, and his proposal turns confession into a covenant to put away the foreign wives, according to the law. His closing clause carries the chapter's hinge, yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Shechaniah the son of Jehiel - He speaks here in the name of the people, not acknowledging himself culpable, for he is not in the following list. It is in the same form of speech with that in James, Jas 3:9. With the tongue curse we men. He seems to have been a chief man among the people; and Ezra, at present, stood in need of his influence and support.

The words behind it

22 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיַּעַן֩and he answered

    vaiyaanH6030 →331 times

  • שְׁכַנְיָ֨הShecaniah

    shekhanyahH7935 →10 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H1121 →4930 times

  • יְחִיאֵ֜לJehiel

    yechielH3171 →14 times

  • מִבְּנֵ֤יone of [the] descendants of

    mibeneiH1121 →4930 times

  • עֵילָם֙Elam

    olamH5867 →28 times

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • לְעֶזְרָ֔אto Ezra

    leezra'H5830 →22 times

  • אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙we

    ʾanachnuH587 →120 times

  • מָעַ֣לְנוּwe have acted unfaithfully

    maalnuH4603 →

  • בֵאלֹהֵ֔ינוּagainst God our

    veloheinuH430 →2601 times

  • וַנֹּ֛שֶׁבand we have married

    vanoshevH3427 →1079 times

  • נָשִׁ֥יםwomen

    nashimH802 →781 times

  • נָכְרִיּ֖וֹתforeign

    nakheriyotH5237 →45 times

  • מֵעַמֵּ֣יfrom [the] peoples of

    meameiH5971 →1873 times

  • הָאָ֑רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • וְעַתָּ֛הand now

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • יֵשׁ־there

    yesh-H3426 →

  • מִקְוֶ֥ה[is] hope

    mikvehH4723 →

  • לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖לfor Israel

    leyisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • זֹֽאת׃this

    zotH2063 →603 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Nehemiah 13:27Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”6 worksEzra 9:2Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”6 worksJeremiah 3:12–13Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.3 worksExodus 34:12Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.3 worksExodus 18:24Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.3 worksEzra 10:26From the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Exodus 34:6–7Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,2 worksNehemiah 3:29Next to them, Zadok son of Immer made repairs opposite his house, and next to him, Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, the guard of the East Gate, made repairs.2 worksJames 2:9But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.2 worksIsaiah 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.2 works1 John 1:7–9But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.2 worksLeviticus 5:19It is a guilt offering; he was certainly guilty before the LORD.”2 worksMalachi 2:11Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.2 worksActs 27:22But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because you will not experience any loss of life, but only of the ship.2 worksEzra 2:31the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254;1 worksNehemiah 7:12the descendants of Elam, 1,254;1 worksNehemiah 7:34the descendants of the other Elam, 1,254;1 worksEzra 2:7the descendants of Elam, 1,254;1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Ezra 9:2

    Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and…

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 13:23–24

      In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

    • Ezra 10:18–44

      Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers:

    • Exodus 34:16

      And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.

    • Deuteronomy 7:1–4

      When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations…

    • Deuteronomy 7:6

      For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of…

  • Through

    Exodus 34:12

    Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 23:32–33

      You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

    • Joshua 23:12–13

      For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,

    • Deuteronomy 7:2

      and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

About Ezra

Ezra Kneels in Prayer, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezra Kneels in Prayer, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah and Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.

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