Ezra 10:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.

Ezra 10:1 —

Old words in this verse

sore: — greatly, very (as in "sore afraid").

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 9:20
And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
Psalms 119:136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Romans 9:2
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. …
1 Kings 8:30
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

We are here told, I. What good impressions were made upon the people by Ezra’s humiliation and confession of sin. No sooner was it noised in the city that their new governor, in whom they rejoiced, was himself in grief, and to so great a degree, for them and their sin, than presently there assembled to him a very great congregation, to see what the matter was and to mingle their tears with his, Ez…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Ezr 10:1-17. Ezra Reforms the Strange Marriages. 1. Now when Ezra had prayed--As this prayer was uttered in public, while there was a general concourse of the people at the time of the evening sacrifice and as it was accompanied with all the demonstrations of poignant sorrow and anguish, it is not surprising that the spectacle of a man so respected, a priest so holy, a governor so dignified as Ezr…