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After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now when these things were done, the princes drew near unto me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

KJV

Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

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Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah · Written before 735.

After these things were completed, etc. The guilt of this transgression is also clearly described and reproved by prophetic authority in the prophet Malachi; because evidently those who returned from Babylonian captivity, both princes and priests and Levites, as well as the rest of the …

This site's exposition

have not kept themselves separate

on Ezra 9:1-2

The leaders report that the people, priests and Levites included, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples. The roll of eight nations echoes the conquest list of Deuteronomy 7:1. Verse 2 names the offense: the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Now when these things were done,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Abominations - The mixed marriages had prevented that complete separation of the people of God from the idolatrous rites, or “abominations,” which the Law required, and which was necessary for purity of religion. See 1Ki 11:2 note.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The people of Israel - These were they who had returned at first with Zerubbabel, and were settled in the land of Judea and whom Ezra found on his arrival to be little better than the Canaanitish nations from whom God had commanded them ever to keep separate.

The words behind it

23 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.

  • וּכְכַלּ֣וֹתand just as finished

    ukhekhalotH3615 →208 times

  • אֵ֗לֶּהthese [things]

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • נִגְּשׁ֨וּthey drew near

    nigeshuH5066 →

  • אֵלַ֤יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • הַשָּׂרִים֙the leaders

    hasarimH8269 →421 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • נִבְדְּל֞וּthey have separated themselves

    nivdeluH914 →42 times

  • הָעָ֤םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וְהַכֹּהֲנִ֣יםand the priests

    vehakohanimH3548 →750 times

  • וְהַלְוִיִּ֔םand the Levites

    vehalviyimH3881 →291 times

  • מֵעַמֵּ֖יfrom [the] peoples of

    meameiH5971 →1873 times

  • הָאֲרָצ֑וֹתthe lands

    haaratzotH776 →2504 times

  • כְּ֠תוֹעֲבֹֽתֵיהֶםaccording to abominations their

    ketoavoteihemH8441 →117 times

  • לַכְּנַעֲנִ֨יto the Canaanite[s]

    lakenaaniH3669 →

  • הַחִתִּ֜יthe Hittite[s]

    hachitiH2850 →

  • הַפְּרִזִּ֣יthe Perizzite[s]

    haperiziH6522 →

  • הַיְבוּסִ֗יthe Jebusite[s]

    hayvusiH2983 →

  • הָֽעַמֹּנִי֙the Ammonite[s]

    haamoniH5984 →

  • הַמֹּ֣אָבִ֔יthe Moabite[s]

    hamoaviH4125 →

  • הַמִּצְרִ֖יthe Egyptian[s]

    hamitzriH4713 →

  • וְהָאֱמֹרִֽי׃and the Amorite[s]

    vehaemoriH567 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Leviticus 18:24–30Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.7 worksHosea 7:8Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.7 worksNehemiah 9:2Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.6 worksEzra 6:21The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.5 worksEzra 10:10–11Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.4 worksEzekiel 16:3and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.4 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Deuteronomy 12:30–31be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”3 worksRomans 2:17–25Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;3 worksExodus 33:16For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”3 worksJeremiah 26:10When the officials of Judah heard these things, they went up from the king’s palace to the house of the LORD and sat there at the entrance of the New Gate.2 worksNehemiah 4:3Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”2 worksJeremiah 26:16Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”2 works2 Corinthians 6:14–18Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?2 worksGenesis 15:16In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”2 worksGenesis 15:19–21the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,2 worksDeuteronomy 23:3–5No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.2 worksEzra 10:8Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.2 worksLeviticus 18:3You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each 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

    Nehemiah 9:2

    Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 13:3

      As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.

    • Ezra 10:11

      Now, therefore, make a confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from your foreign wives.”

    • Daniel 9:3–10

      So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

    • Nehemiah 13:30

      Thus I purified the priests and Levites from everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.

    • Daniel 9:20

      While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain—

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About Ezra

Ezra Kneels in Prayer — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Ezra Kneels in Prayer — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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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); Bede, Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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