Ezra 10:5

Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.

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Interpretation

Shechaniah owned the national guilt. The case is sad, but it is not desperate; the disease threatening, but not incurable.

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This thought runs through Ezra 10:1-5.

Ezra Person: 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.