Ezra 10:17
in Ezra 10and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they made an end with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
KJV
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
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This verse in Ezra 10
Commentary
8 notes on this verseAnd they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives,.... Finished their inquiry and examination of them: by the first day of the first month; the month Nisan, answering to part of March and April; so that they were three months about this work.
This site's exposition
On the first day of the tenth month
on Ezra 10:16-17
The investigation runs three months, from the first day of the tenth month to the first day of the first month. Ezra selects family heads, each identified by name, to represent their families. This is the same ancestral method that shaped the registers of Ezra 2.
This site's exposition
by the first day of the first month
John Gill counts three months for the investigation, from the tenth month to the first, and Albert Barnes a full two. Barnes lists the work. The family heads of verse 16 had to confirm that each wife was foreign and write each certificate of divorce.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Of Judah - Not only of these two tribes, as appears from the following catalogue, where there are priests and Levites; but all the Israelites, ver. 25, who are thus described, because the greatest part of them were of these tribes, though others were mixed with them: and because they all now dwelt in that land, which formerly was appropriated to those tribes.
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Who the persons were that were found guilty of this crime. Their names are here recorded to their perpetual reproach; many of the priests, nay, of the family of Jeshua, the high priest, were found guilty (
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The Nineteenth Century3 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The business occupied the commission full two months. In some cases, it may be presumed, they had to summon persons before them who did not wish to part with their foreign wives; in all, they had to assure themselves that the wives were foreign; finally, they had in every case where they decreed a divorce to make out the “writing of divorcement” Ezr 10:3.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Ezra the priest stood up, and said--Having fully represented the enormity of their sin and urged them to dissolve their unlawful connections, he was gratified by receiving a prompt acknowledgment of the justice of his reproof and a promise of compliance with his recommendation.
The first day of the first month - So they were three whole months in examining into this affair, and making those separations which the law required.
The words behind it
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְכַלּ֣וּ | vaykhalu | and they finished | H3615 → | 208 times |
| בַכֹּ֔ל | vakol | with <the> everything | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אֲנָשִׁ֕ים | ʾanashim | [the] men | H582 → | 566 times |
| הַהֹשִׁ֖יבוּ | hahoshivu | who they had married | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| נָשִׁ֣ים | nashim | women | H802 → | 781 times |
| נָכְרִיּ֑וֹת | nakheriyot | foreign | H5237 → | 45 times |
| עַ֛ד | ʾad | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| י֥וֹם | yom | day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| אֶחָ֖ד | ʾechad | one | H259 → | 971 times |
| לַחֹ֥דֶשׁ | lachodesh | of the month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ פ | harishon | <the> first | H7223 → | 182 times |
וַיְכַלּ֣וּand they finished
vaykhaluH3615 →208 times
בַכֹּ֔לwith <the> everything
vakolH3605 →5413 times
אֲנָשִׁ֕ים[the] men
ʾanashimH582 →566 times
הַהֹשִׁ֖יבוּwho they had married
hahoshivuH3427 →1079 times
נָשִׁ֣יםwomen
nashimH802 →781 times
נָכְרִיּ֑וֹתforeign
nakheriyotH5237 →45 times
עַ֛דuntil
ʾadH5704 →1261 times
י֥וֹםday
yomH3117 →2304 times
אֶחָ֖דone
ʾechadH259 →971 times
לַחֹ֥דֶשׁof the month
lachodeshH2320 →284 times
הָרִאשֽׁוֹן׃ פ<the> first
harishonH7223 →182 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezra
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and W. F. Adeney, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Expositor's Bible).