For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
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Gill's Exposition
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sorts,.... Some that were widowers not only took wives to themselves of the above nations, either when they were of Babylon, where…
Adam Clarke
Hath been chief in this trespass - They who are the first men have been the most capital offenders; so Virgil, Aen. ix. 783: -
Unus homo, vestris, o cives, undique septus
Aggeribus, tantas strages…
Ezra, like Barnabas when he came to Jerusalem and saw the grace of God to his brethren there, no doubt was glad, and exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave to the Lord, Act…
Cambridge Bible
they have taken i.e. -taken wives" as in Ezr 10:44; 2Ch 11:21; 2Ch 13:21.
the holy seed i.e. the race set apart and consecrated to God, cf. Exo 19:5-6. The term -the holy seed" is found also in Isa…
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