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
We have trespassed
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, was working opposite his house. And after him Shemaiah, the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east door.
We have trespassed
James 2:9
But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.
Exodus 34:12
But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.
Nehemiah 13:27
Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?
Yet now there is hope
Exodus 34:6
And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;
Isaiah 55:6
Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:
Jeremiah 3:12
Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.
1 John 1:7
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
General references
Exodus 18:24
So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said.
1 Corinthians 12:21
And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.