Ezra 10

Ezra 10:1

weeping] Weeping in Prayer, twise here. So 2 Kings XX. 3. and XXII. 19. Num. XXV. 6. Judg. XX. 23, 26. and XXI. 2. 1 Sam. I. 10. and VII. 6. 2 Kings XX. 3. Heb. V. 7. Psal. VI. 8. and XXXIX. 12.

Ezra 10:3

a Covenant] Covenants much used between God and his People, Gen. VI. 18. and XV. 18. and XVII. 2. Deut. V. 2. Josh. XXIV. 24. 2 Kings XI. 17. and XXIII. 3. 2 Chron. XV. 12. and XXIX. 10. Neh. IX. 38. Esay LIX. 21.

and such as were borne of them] If the mothers continued Heathens, and did not turne Proselytes; their children were not to be reputed as free-borne sons, in the number of Gods people; yet the fathers were to have a fatherly care of them, for maintenance and education.

Ezra 10:8

forfeited] According to that power given to Ezra, chap. VII. 26.

separated] By excommunication; as John IX. 22, 34. or by banishment, chap. VII. 26.

Ezra 10:9

ninth moneth, twentieth day] Therefore the Proclamation, ver. 7, 8, was on the ninth moneth, seventeenth day, about the beginning of our December.

Ezra 10:13

of one day or two] But of three moneths, ver. 16, 17.

Ezra 10:14

Our Rulers of all the Congregation] Such as Deut. XVII. 9. In semblance whereof in after ages they builded their Sanedrin, and great Councel.

Ezra 10:16

examine] 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a word beside all ordinary forme of Grammer. And the like is again Psal. X. 15.

Ezra 10:18

sonnes of Jeshua] of the High Priests race; which haply made the High Priest absent himself in this action, ver. 15.

Ezra 10:44

All these] Seventeen Priests; Of the Levites, Singers, and Porters ten, of all other Tribes, eighty six. In all, one hundred and thirteen, as the great Annotations count them.