They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
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They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
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And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
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And they were finished with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Ezr 10:17 And they made an end with all…
Ezr 10:17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
Ver. 17. By the first day of the first month] So that it was not the work of one day or two, as Ezr 10:13, but of full three months; and yet they were not slothful in that business, but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. In the work of repentance take time enough, dig deep enough by thorough humiliation; lest the fall of the house be great. The English are not sick soon enough, saith one, and they are well too soon; this is true of their minds, as well as of their bodies.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they made an end with all the men…
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives,.... Finished their inquiry and examination of them:
by the first day of the first month; the month Nisan, answering to part of March and April; so that they were three months about this work.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 17. The first day of the first month]…
Verse 17. The first day of the first month] So they were three whole months in examining into this affair, and making those separations which the law required.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The business occupied the commission full two months. In…
The business occupied the commission full two months. In some cases, it may be presumed, they had to summon persons before them who did not wish to part with their foreign wives; in all, they had to assure themselves that the wives were foreign; finally, they had in every case where they decreed a divorce to make out the “writing of divorcement” Ezr 10:3.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 17. End… first month — So that they were…
17. End… first month — So that they were employed three months in the matter.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. And they made an end with all the…
17. And they made an end with all the men, &c.] The Hebrew runs ‘And they made an end with the whole (business), i.e. the men that had, &c.’ The English rendering expresses the meaning. But the wording of the present Hebrew text can hardly be correct, and there is some ground for the conjecture that the words’ the men that had married strange wives ‘found their way into the text from a heading or a marginal gloss.
that had taken strange wives] R.V. that had married strange women.
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by the first day of the first month] The investigation had lasted precisely three months. It lasted until the 1st of Nisan, having been continued throughout the months of Tebeth, Shebat (Zec_1:7) and Adar (Ezr_6:15).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain They made an end with all the men. They…
They made an end with all the men. They ran through the whole list of those who were accused of having taken strange wives, and adjudicated on every case, by the first day of the first month, Nisan, corresponding nearly with our April. Deducting Sabbaths, the number of days in the three months would be seventy-five or seventy-six; but it is of course possible that the court did not sit continuously.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain first month
first month
i.e. April.
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