The covenant of repentance and amendment. Here the narrative assumes another form; and, in accordance with the solemnity of a great public transact…

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam,
answered and said to Ezra
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Shechaniah acknowledged the national guilt. The case is sad, but it is not desperate; the disease is threatening, but not incurable. Now that the p…