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Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
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Confronting Sin Close to Home
Commentators note that Shecaniah, the man who speaks up, was personally affected by this sin. His own father, Jehiel, was among those who had married a foreign woman. This makes his public confession and call for repentance particularly courageous, as he was confronting a problem that existed within his own family.
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Ezra
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Jehiel was one of those who had taken an idolatrous wife (Ezra 10:26); and Shechaniah had therefore had the evil brought home to him.
19th Century
Anglican
The covenant of repentance and amendment. Here the narrative assumes another form; and, in accordance with the solemnity of a great public transact…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra …
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