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

Elam’s descendants: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah;

After them Zadok son of Immer made repairs opposite his house. And beside him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, guard of the East Gate, made repairs.

We have trespassed

But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land that you are going to enter; otherwise, they will become a snare among you.

Why then should we hear about you doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

Yet now there is hope

Then the Lord passed in front of him and proclaimed:

Yahweh—Yahweh is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth,

Seek the Lord while He may be found;
call to Him while He is near.

Go, proclaim these words to the north, and say:

Return, unfaithful Israel.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will not look on you with anger,
for I am unfailing in My love.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
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

Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.

So the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” Or again, the head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”