Ezra 10:44

All these had taken strange wives,.... In all about one hundred and thirteen:

and some of them had wives by whom they had children; and yet they put them away, which made it the more difficult for…

Compare with the list in Ezra 2. Ezr 10:19 They gave their hands - i. e., “solemnly pledged themselves” (compare the marginal references). Ezr 10:44 The guilty persons, it would seem, were 113 in…

Some of them had wives by whom they had children - This observation was probably intended to show that only a few of them had children; but it shows also how rigorously the law was put in…

The method of proceeding in this matter being concluded on, and the congregation dismissed, that each in his respective place might gain and give intelligence to facilitate the matter, we are here…

All these had taken strange wives So also the R.V., a different phrase in the original from that rendered -had married strange women". See on Ezr 9:2.

and some of them had wives bywhom they had…