Ezra 10:39
in Ezra 10Shimei, Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,
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and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
KJV
And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
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This verse in Ezra 10
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
among the other Israelites
on Ezra 10:25-43
The heading "among the other Israelites" opens the longest stretch of the chapter, nineteen verses of names. Ten or more houses of ordinary Israelites are named, which shows how far the failure had spread. By verse 17 the cases were already dealt with, so the list records finished discipline.
This site's exposition
Shimei, Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah
Shimei, first in Binnui's group, is also the name of a Levite at verse 23 and of a man of Hashum at verse 33. Adaiah recurs from the house of Bani at verse 29.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
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 words behind it
3 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.
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 10; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.