And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers , and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
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Gill's Exposition
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers,.... Such as were genuine Israelites, of the seed of Abraham, who had married wives of the Gentiles, strangers to the commonwealth of…
Adam Clarke
The seed of Israel separated themselves - A reformation of this kind was begun by Ezra, Ezr 10:3; but it appears that either more were found out who had taken strange wives, or else those who had…
We have here a general account of a public fast which the children of Israel kept, probably by order from Nehemiah, by and with the advice and consent of the chief of the fathers. It was a fast that…
Cambridge Bible
the seed of Israel A more formal and poetical expression than -the children of Israel." It does not occur again in these books; but we find it in 2Ki 17:20; 1Ch 16:13; Psa 22:23, and in Is. Jer. The…
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