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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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Verse 2. Sechenias. 3 Esd. calls him “Jechoias.” See Calmet. 8:5. The name of Sechenias is not found among the transgressors; (verse 20) but that of Jehiel is, verse 26. It seems, however, that the former returned with Esdras, and speaks in the name of the people, to encourage them to confess their guilt, ( Calmet.) unless his name be omitted. Menochius.—Repentance. Hebrew “yet there is hope, (Prot.) or an assembly of Israel.” Du Dieu.
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