Bible study online

Ezra 10:16

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Ezra 10:16

Verse 16 of 44

Scripture focus

And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, [with] certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by [their] names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

Ezra 10:16 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Ezra 10:16

Theological / Devotional

Ezra … were separated. The KJV faithfully renders the Hebrew text, which gives no indication as to who made the selection. Some commentators and translators alter the text so as to make it read that the commission was appointed by Ezra.

Sat down. The sittings of the commission appointed to decide individual cases began their work on Tebet 1, which was December 18, 457 B.C., ten days after the mass meeting in Jerusalem had decided to refer the matter of the heathen wives to a panel of appointed leaders.

By SdaBc