Ezra 10:44
in Ezra 10All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
KJV
All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
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This verse in Ezra 10
Commentary
4 notes on this verseAll these had taken strange wives,.... In all about one hundred and thirteen: and some of them had wives by whom they had children; and yet they put them away, which made it the more difficult for them to do; and those that had none, it is thought to be a mark of God's displeasure at such marriages.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
One would think this grievance was now thoroughly redressed, yet we meet with it again ( Neh. xiii. 11 ), for such corruptions are easily and insensibly brought in, but not without great difficulty purged out again. The best reformers can but do their endeavour, but, when the Redeemer himself shall come to Sion, he shall effectually turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
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 Century1 voice
Some of them had wives by whom they had children - This observation was probably intended to show that only a few of them had children; but it shows also how rigorously the law was put in execution.
The words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אֵ֕לֶּה | ʾeleh | these | H428 → | 746 times |
| נָשְׂאוּ | naseu | they had taken | H5375 → | 656 times |
| נָשִׁ֣ים | nashim | women | H802 → | 781 times |
| נָכְרִיּ֑וֹת | nakheriyot | foreign | H5237 → | 45 times |
| וְיֵ֣שׁ | veyesh | and there | H3426 → | |
| מֵהֶ֣ם | mehem | [were] some of <the> them | ||
| נָשִׁ֔ים | nashim | wives | H802 → | 781 times |
| וַיָּשִׂ֖ימוּ | vaiyasimu | and they [masc] had made | H7760 → | |
| בָּנִֽים׃ פ | banim | children | H1121 → | 4930 times |
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
אֵ֕לֶּהthese
ʾelehH428 →746 times
נָשְׂאוּthey had taken
naseuH5375 →656 times
נָשִׁ֣יםwomen
nashimH802 →781 times
נָכְרִיּ֑וֹתforeign
nakheriyotH5237 →45 times
וְיֵ֣שׁand there
veyeshH3426 →
מֵהֶ֣ם[were] some of <the> them
mehem
נָשִׁ֔יםwives
nashimH802 →781 times
וַיָּשִׂ֖ימוּand they [masc] had made
vaiyasimuH7760 →
בָּנִֽים׃ פchildren
banimH1121 →4930 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
Proverbs 5:3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
it leads to
- Proverbs 6:24
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Proverbs 2:16
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
- Proverbs 7:5
that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Proverbs 6:24
Through
Proverbs 2:16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
it leads to
- Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is…
- Proverbs 23:27
For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
- Proverbs 22:14
Through
Ezra 10:3So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the…
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 7:2–3
and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
- Ezra 9:4
Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles, while I sat there in horror until the evening offering.
- Deuteronomy 7:2–3
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezra
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.