Ezra 10:5

Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
arose	וַיָּ֣קָם vai.Ya.kom	H6965	to rise (in various applications · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Ezra	עֶזְרָ֡א 'ez.Ra'	H5830	Ezra · proper noun, a man's name
chief	שָׂרֵי֩ sa.Rei	H8269	a head person (of any rank or class) · noun, common masculine plural construct
priests	הַכֹּהֲנִ֨ים ha.ko.ha.Nim	H3548	literally one officiating · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
Levites	הַלְוִיִּ֜ם hal.vi.Yim	H3881	a Levite or descendant of Levi · definite article + noun, gentilic masculine plural absolute
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
swear	וַיַּשְׁבַּ֣ע vai.yash.Ba'	H7650	to seven oneself · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
do	לַעֲשׂ֛וֹת la.'a.Sot	H6213	to do or make · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
word	כַּדָּבָ֥ר ka.da.Var	H1697	a word · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
sware	וַיִּשָּׁבֵֽעוּ vai.yi.sha.Ve.'u	H7650	to seven oneself · conjunction + verb, niphal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural

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Cross-references

Nehemiah 13:25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye sh…
Nehemiah 5:12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an…
Ezra 10:3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lo…
Nehemiah 10:29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the s…
Proverbs 1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Proverbs 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 15:23 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Proverbs 25:11-12 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezra 10:1-5

We are here told, I. 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, Ezr 10:1. Our weeping for other people's sins may perhaps set those a weeping for them themselves who otherwise would continue senseless and remorseless. See what a happy influence the good examples of great ones may have upon their inferiors. When Ezra, a scribe, a scholar, a man in authority under t…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezra 10:5

Then Ezra . . . went into the chamber of Johanan--At a private council of the princes and elders held there, under the presidency of Ezra, it was resolved to enter into a general covenant to put away their foreign wives and children; that a proclamation should be made for all who had returned from Babylon to repair within three days to Jerusalem, under pain of excommunication and confiscation of their property.

Adam Clarke on Ezra 10:5

And they sware - The thing was evidently contrary to the law of God; and now he bound them by an oath to rectify the abuse.

John Gill on Ezra 10:5

Then arose Ezra,.... From the ground where he lay: and made the chief priests, and the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word: he took an oath of all that were present to do what was proposed, namely, to put away strange wives and their children: and they sware; by means of which they were kept to their word of promise, an oath being a solemn, sacred, thing.

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezra 10:5

Then Ezra (who during this speech had continued upon his knees) arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, of the Levites, and of all Israel swear to do according to this word; and they swore. הזּה הדּבר is Shecaniah's proposal to put away the strange wives.

The Church Fathers

And Ezra rose before the house of God, etc. Eliasib was the high priest of that time, since after Jesus the son of Jozadak, his son Joachim, and after him his son Eliasib, carried out the rank of high priest, as both the subsequent sections of this sacred history and the Jewish history of Josephus prove.
— Bede, Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah

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Dictionary and topics

Covenant — A contract or agreement between two parties. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. Berith is derived from a root which means “to cut,” and hence a covenant is a…
Alliance And Society With The Enemies Of God · Sin of, to be confessed, deeply repented of, and forsaken — Sin of, to be confessed, deeply repented of, and forsaken
Divorce · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Ezra · 9; — 9;
Magistrates · Good — Exemplified: Samuel — Good — Exemplified: Samuel

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ezra 10:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezra 10:1-5

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezra 10:5

Adam Clarke on Ezra 10:5

John Gill on Ezra 10:5

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezra 10:5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Ezra 10:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezra 10:1-5

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezra 10:5

Adam Clarke on Ezra 10:5

John Gill on Ezra 10:5

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezra 10:5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezra 10:5

Rashi on Ezra 10:4