And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
What does Ezra 10:2 mean?
Shechaniah owned the national guilt. The case is sad, but it is not desperate; the disease threatening, but not incurable.
Key themes
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Keep this verse inside Ezra 10:1-5 and alongside a few nearby related passages.
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Glossary
- Ezra Person
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Help. (1. ) A priest among those that returned to Jerusalem under Zerubabel ( Neh. 12:1 ). (2. ) The “scribe” who led the second body of exiles that returned from Babylon to Jerusalem B. C.