Ezra 10:40
in Ezra 10Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
KJV
Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
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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
Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai
The two registers may join the houses of Binnui and Bani. Ezra 2:10 lists the descendants of Bani with 642, and Nehemiah 7:15 gives the descendants of Binnui with 648 in the same place. Machnadebai, Shashai and Sharai occur in no other verse of Ezra.
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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About Ezra
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Berean Standard Bible, Ezra 2:10; Berean Standard Bible, Nehemiah 7:15, the parallel register; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.