The Bible — notes and cross-references in Ezra | Interpretation and commentary to chapter 9

9:15^a remnant

Ezra 9:8
9:12^a take

Deut. 7:3; cf. Ezra 9:2
9:9^a house

Ezra 6:14-15
9:8^b peg

Isa. 22:23
9:8^a remnant

Ezra 9:14-15; cf. 2 Kings 19:30-31
9:6^b iniquities

Psa. 38:4; 40:12; cf. Psa. 106:6; Dan. 9:5
9:6^a embarrassed

Job 10:15; Luke 18:13
9:5^a spread

1 Kings 8:22
9:2^b mingled

Psa. 106:35; cf. Deut. 7:3; Josh. 23:12; 2 Cor. 6:14
9:2^a holy

Mal. 2:11; cf. Deut. 7:6; 1 Cor. 7:14
9:2¹ daughters

God had charged the children of Israel not to intermarry with the peoples of the land when they entered into the good land (v. 12; Deut. 7:1-6). At Ezra’s time not only the common people but even the priests and the Levites had foreign wives (v. 1). Ezra confessed that because of their taking foreign wives Israel despised and neglected their right to enjoy the good land and, as a result, were given by God into captivity (vv. 7, 10-15). Cf. note 1 Kings 3:1¹, note 2 Cor. 6:14^2a and note 2 Cor. 6:14^3b.
9:1^a not

cf. Ezra 6:21; Neh. 9:2; 10:28; Exo. 33:16; Num. 23:9