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. After him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, keeper of the East Gate, repaired the wall.

We have trespassed

But if you show partiality [prejudice, favoritism], you are committing sin and are convicted by the Law as offenders.

Watch yourself so that you do not make a covenant (solemn agreement, treaty) with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a [dangerous] trap among you.

Do we then hear about you that you have done all this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign (pagan) 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 (faithfulness);

Seek the Lord while He may be found;
Call on Him [for salvation] while He is near.

Go and proclaim these words toward the north [where the ten tribes have been taken as captives] and say,

‘Return, faithless Israel,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not look on you in anger.
For I am gracious and merciful,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not be angry forever.

but if we [really] walk in the Light [that is, live each and every day in conformity with the precepts of God], as He Himself is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another [He with us, and we with Him], and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin [by erasing the stain of sin, keeping us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations].

General references

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

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”