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Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
Ezra 10:1 — KJV
When Ezra. For the remainder of the narrative Ezra retires to the background, and speaks of himself in the third person. On the change of persons in pronouns, see on Ezra 7:28.
A very great congregation. Many people had come to the Temple to attend the daily evening sacrifice. Seeing Ezra, the recently appointed leader, in the greatest imaginable distress, confessing the sins of the people, these men and women were naturally deeply affected. Ezra’s sincerity made such a strong impression on them that they all wept. At first Ezra had knelt in prayer with his hands uplifted (Ezra 9:5), but soon, sensing more and more the heinousness of the people’s transgression, he threw himself upon the ground in an attitude of extreme humiliation. Emotional acts such as this could not fail to impress an Oriental congregation in the strongest way possible.
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