Ezra 10:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.

The chamber

Nehemiah 13:5

Johanan

Nehemiah 3:1

Nehemiah 12:10

Nehemiah 13:28

He did eat

Deuteronomy 9:18

Job 23:12

John 4:31

He mourned

Ezra 9:4

Isaiah 22:12

Daniel 9:3

Bible References

The chamber

had prepared a large room for him, where formerly they put the grain offerings, the frankincense, the utensils and the tithes of grain, wine and oil prescribed for the Levites, the singers and the gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

Johanan

Then Eliashib the high priest arose with his brothers the priests and built the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and hung its doors. They consecrated the wall to the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel.

Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada,

Even one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, so I drove him away from me.

He did eat

I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.

“I have not departed from the command of His lips;
I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

He mourned

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel on account of the unfaithfulness of the exiles gathered to me, and I sat appalled until the evening offering.

Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing,
To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.

So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.