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.

Yet now there is hope

General references

Bible References

Shechaniah

Ezra 10:26
And of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.
Nehemiah 3:29
After them Zadok the son of Immer repaired opposite his own house. And after him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate, repaired.

We have trespassed

James 2:9
But if ye respect personages, ye work sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Exodus 34:12
Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where thou go, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee.
Nehemiah 13:27
Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

Yet now there is hope

Exodus 34:6
And LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, LORD, LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
Isaiah 55:6
Seek ye LORD while he may be found. Call ye upon him while he is near.
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from every sin.

General references

Exodus 18:24
So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
1 Corinthians 12:21
And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.