Ezra 10:9
in Ezra 10So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of the heavy rain.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within the three days (it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month); and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
KJV
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
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This verse in Ezra 10
Commentary
10 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
It was the ninth month - Or, our December, a time when rain fails heavily in Palestine: four months, therefore, after Ezra’s arrival in Jerusalem (compare Ezr 7:9). The street - Rather, “the court,” the “broad,” “spacious, place” (compare the 2Ch 29:4 note).
This site's exposition
a proclamation was issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem
on Ezra 10:7-9
The proclamation carries a deadline. Anyone who fails to gather at Jerusalem within three days forfeits all his property and is expelled from the assembly of the exiles. The men of Judah and Benjamin come, and the narrator names the date, the twentieth day of the ninth month.
This site's exposition
on the twentieth day of the ninth month
Albert Barnes sets the ninth month four months after Ezra's arrival at Jerusalem, dated at Ezra 7:9. Barnes reads the square as the temple's broad court. Bede takes the naming of Judah and Benjamin as a sign that the guilty belonged to the first migration.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers3 voices
If this is the Lord's commandment, in both the Old Testament and the New, and this is what the Lord commands, and this is what the apostle teaches, namely, that only spouses of the same religions and faith may remain joined. [De coniugiis adulterinis, PL 40.25.465]
If these things are so, it is certain that believers contracting marriages with Gentiles are guilty of fornication, and are to be excluded from all communication with the brotherhood, in accordance with the letter of the apostle, who says that "with persons of that kind there is to be no taking of food even." [To His Wife 2.3 ANF v.4]
I will say what the Apostle has taught me, that they are not on the side of righteousness, but of iniquity: not of light, but of darkness: that they do not belong to Christ, but to Belial: that they are not temples of the living God, but shrines and idols of the dead.
The Medieval Church1 voice
He is the new moon, on the twentieth day of the month, etc. The ninth month is the same which the Hebrews call Casleu, and the Romans call December, which comes in the middle of winter and is rainy and stormy, as anyone would know. …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin,....
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
It was the ninth month--that is, between the end of December and the beginning of January, which is the coldest and most rainy season of the year in Palestine. all the people sat in the street--that is, the court.
Ninth month - Answering to a part of our December. Trembling because of - the great rain - Απο του χειμωνος, Because of the winter, Septuagint; it was now December, the coldest and most rainy part of the year in Palestine.
The words behind it
23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּ | vaiyikavetzu | and they assembled | H6908 → | 127 times |
| כָל־ | khol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אַנְשֵֽׁי־ | ʾanshei- | [the] people of | H582 → | 566 times |
| יְהוּדָה֩ | yehudah | Judah | H3063 → | 819 times |
| וּבִנְיָמִ֨ן׀ | uvinyamin | and Benjamin | H1144 → | 166 times |
| יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜ם | yerushalim | Jerusalem | H3389 → | 643 times |
| לִשְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת | lishloshet | to [the] three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| הַיָּמִ֗ים | haiyamim | the days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| ה֛וּא | hu' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| חֹ֥דֶשׁ | chodesh | [was the] month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| הַתְּשִׁיעִ֖י | hateshii | <the> ninth | H8671 → | |
| בְּעֶשְׂרִ֣ים | beesrim | on [day] twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| בַּחֹ֑דֶשׁ | bachodesh | in the month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| וַיֵּשְׁב֣וּ | vaiyeshevu | and they sat | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| כָל־ | khol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הָעָ֗ם | haam | the people | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| בִּרְחוֹב֙ | birchov | in [the] open place of | H7339 → | |
| בֵּ֣ית | beit | [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים | haelohim | <the> God | H430 → | 2601 times |
| מַרְעִידִ֥ים | maridim | trembling | H7460 → | |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הַדָּבָ֖ר | hadavar | the matter | H1697 → | 1440 times |
| וּמֵהַגְּשָׁמִֽים׃ פ | umehageshamim | and from the rains | H1653 → |
וַיִּקָּבְצ֣וּand they assembled
vaiyikavetzuH6908 →127 times
כָל־all
khol-H3605 →5413 times
אַנְשֵֽׁי־[the] people of
ʾanshei-H582 →566 times
יְהוּדָה֩Judah
yehudahH3063 →819 times
וּבִנְיָמִ֨ן׀and Benjamin
uvinyaminH1144 →166 times
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜םJerusalem
yerushalimH3389 →643 times
לִשְׁלֹ֣שֶׁתto [the] three
lishloshetH7969 →432 times
הַיָּמִ֗יםthe days
haiyamimH3117 →2304 times
ה֛וּאit
hu'H1931 →1879 times
חֹ֥דֶשׁ[was the] month
chodeshH2320 →284 times
הַתְּשִׁיעִ֖י<the> ninth
hateshiiH8671 →
בְּעֶשְׂרִ֣יםon [day] twenty
beesrimH6242 →315 times
בַּחֹ֑דֶשׁin the month
bachodeshH2320 →284 times
וַיֵּשְׁב֣וּand they sat
vaiyeshevuH3427 →1079 times
כָל־all
khol-H3605 →5413 times
הָעָ֗םthe people
haamH5971 →1873 times
בִּרְחוֹב֙in [the] open place of
birchovH7339 →
בֵּ֣ית[the] house of
beitH1004 →2046 times
הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים<the> God
haelohimH430 →2601 times
מַרְעִידִ֥יםtrembling
maridimH7460 →
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
הַדָּבָ֖רthe matter
hadavarH1697 →1440 times
וּמֵהַגְּשָׁמִֽים׃ פand from the rains
umehageshamimH1653 →
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
Jeremiah 10:10But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
- Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit,…
- Psalms 76:7
You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
- Nahum 1:6
Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
- Psalms 18:7
Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.
- Deuteronomy 32:4
Through
Jeremiah 10:13When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from…
it leads to
- Psalms 135:7
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- Job 38:22
Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
- Psalms 135:7
Through
Esther 2:16She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
it leads to
- Esther 8:9
At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors,…
- Esther 8:9
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezra
Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonPatriarchsJudahJacob's fourth son who pledges himself for Benjamin; the tribe that carries the scepter to Shiloh (49:10) and the line to Christ (…
- PlaceJerusalemJerusalemThe city David took from the Jebusites and made his capital, where Solomon built the temple, where Christ was crucified and rose,…
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Augustine of Hippo, Commentary (church-history corpus); Bede, Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Against Jovinianus (Book I), Section 10; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther and Tertullian, To His Wife Book II.