44
All these had taken foreign wives. Some of them had wives by whom they had children.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 44. Children. Hebrew may be, “and some of these women had exposed their children.” But most follow the Septuagint and Vulg. 3 Ezra 9:36, “and they ejected them with their children.” None was spared. Calmet.—One great inconvenience of such connections is, that the offspring is illegitimate. Worthington.—Only 17 priests, 10 Levites, and 86 laymen, are stigmatized as guilty of this scandal; yet these fill Israel with confusion, and Esdras with extreme affliction. Bible.
2 ESDRAS
THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAS;
commonly called THE SECOND BOOK OF ESDRAS
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