Ezra 10:5

Then arose Ezra,.... From the ground where he lay:

and made the chief priests, and the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word: he took an oath of all that were…

And they sware - The thing was evidently contrary to the law of God; and now he bound them by an oath to rectify the abuse.

We are here told,

I. What good impressions were made upon the people by Ezra's humiliation and confession of sin. No sooner was it noised in the city that their new governor, in whom they rejoiced,…

Ezra's prompt action: an oath administered to the princes.

the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel R.V. the chiefs of the priests. Here as in Ezr 8:29 the A.V. by rendering -chief priests"…