Ezra 9

Ezra 9:2

So that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of the land.

So as, those, who are the chosen and peculiar people of God, the Jews have matched themselves in marriages, with the heathenish and idolatrous people of the land.

Ezra 9:8

And to give us a nail in his holy place.

To fasten us, and to give us the hope of a settled being, in this holy place; as some nail, that is driven up to the head, in some solid table, that cannot be removed.