Ezra 10:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

Shechaniah

Ezra 10:26

Nehemiah 3:29

We have trespassed

James 2:9

Exodus 34:12

Nehemiah 13:27

Yet now there is hope

General references

Exodus 18:24

1 Corinthians 12:21

Bible References

Shechaniah

and of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth and Elijah;

After them Zadok the son of Immer carried out repairs in front of his house. And after him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, carried out repairs.

We have trespassed

But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.

Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

Yet now there is hope

Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;

Seek the Lord while He may be found;

Call upon Him while He is near.

Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say,
‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord;
‘I will not look upon you in anger.
For I am gracious,’ declares the Lord;
‘I will not be angry forever.

but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

General references

So Moses listened to his father-in-law and did all that he had said.

And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”