Ezra 9:4

All those who trembled at the words of the God of Israel about this faithlessness gathered to me while I was sitting ashamed until the evening offering.

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Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.

In Context

3When I heard this, I tore apart my clothing and robe and pulled out hair from my head and beard, and I sat down, devastated.

5But at the evening offering I arose from my position of humiliation in my torn clothes and robe, and knelt down and spread my hands to Yahweh my God.

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Cross References

Exodus 29:39One lamb you must offer in the morning, and the other lamb you must offer about sundown.

Numbers 25:6Then one of the men of Israel came and brought among his family members a Midianite woman. This happened in the sight of Moses and all the community of the people of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Ezra 10:3So now let us make a covenant with our God to send out all the women and their children according to the Lord's instructions and the instructions of those who tremble at the commandments of our God, and let it be done according to the law.

Isaiah 66:2My hand has made all these things; that is how these things came to be—this is Yahweh's declaration. 1 This is the man of whom I approve, the broken and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at my word. 1

Ezekiel 9:4Yahweh said to him, “Pass through the midst of the city—the midst of Jerusalem—and make a mark on the foreheads of those who groan and sigh about all the abominations being performed in the midst of the city.”

Acts 3:1Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

Matthew Henry on Ezra 9:2-5

Ezra's Reformation. ( b. c. 456.) 1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the… Read the whole commentary →

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