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Ezra 10:41

in Ezra 10

Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,

KJV

Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,

This verse in Ezra 10

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This 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.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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 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.

  • עֲזַרְאֵ֥לAzarel

    ʾazarelH5832 →

  • וְשֶׁלֶמְיָ֖הוּand Shelemiah

    veshelemyahuH8018 →

  • שְׁמַרְיָֽה׃Shemariah

    shemaryahH8114 →

Where this verse is studied

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About Ezra

Cyrus Restores the Vessels of the Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cyrus Restores the Vessels of the Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.