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Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he didn’t eat bread or drink water, for he mourned because of the trespass of the exiles.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 6. Before. 3 Esd. “the court or hall of the temple.” Bible.—Eliasib. His son and successor is styled Joiada. 2 Ezra 12:10. The same person had often many names, ( Calmet.) or Johanan might be a younger son. Menochius.—Josephus (xi. 5.) says, that Esdras went to the apartments of John and Eliasib. Bible.—Esdras, though sent extraordinarily by God, repairs to the son of the priest, as Saint Paul conferred with other apostles. Galatians 2. Worthington.
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