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
7 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 descendants of the priests
on Ezra 10:18-22
The list opens among the priests with the descendants of the high priest Jeshua, so even the household nearest the altar is on it. Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah pledge to send their wives away, and for their guilt they present a ram as a guilt offering.
This site's exposition
They pledged to send their wives away
Albert Barnes counts these four as the high priest's family, and he reads the pledge as giving their hands, a solemn promise. Aben Ezra, as John Gill reports him, finds no rule that made a guilt offering the penalty for such marriages. He supposes the leaders advised it.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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.
What good impressions were made upon the people by Ezra's humiliation and confession of sin. No sooner was it noised in the city that their new governor, in whom they rejoiced, was himself in grief, and to so great a degree, for them and their sin, than presently there assembled to him a very great congregation, to see what the matter was and to mingle their tears with his,
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
they gave their hands--that is, came under a solemn engagement, which was usually ratified by pledging the right hand (Pr 6:1; The delinquents of the priestly order bound themselves to do like the common Israelites (Ezr 10:25), and sought to expiate their sin by sacrificing a ram as a trespass offering.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase+unbalanced-parens
They gave their hands - They bound themselves in the most solemn manner to do as the rest of the delinquents had done; and they made all acknowledgment of their iniquity to God by offering each a ram for a trespass-offering.
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
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); Bede, Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.