Esdra 10:6

6 Poi Esdra si levò d’innanzi alla casa di Dio, e andò nella camera di Johanan, figliuolo di Eliascib: e come vi fu entrato, non mangiò pane né bevve acqua, perché facea cordoglio per la infedeltà di quelli ch’erano stati in esilio.

Esdra 10:6 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 10:6

Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God
Departed from thence:

and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib;
who was of the family of the high priest. Eliashib was grandson of Joshua the high priest, and succeeded his father Joiakim as such; but though Johanan was never high priest, being a younger son, however he was a person of note, and had a chamber in the temple, whither Ezra went, either to advise with the princes and elders in it, ( Ezra 10:8 ) or to refresh himself with food:

and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water;
or rather "not yet had he ate bread" ^F15, as some render it; that is, not till he came thither, from the time he first heard of the evil the people had committed; which very probably was early in the morning, and it was now evening:

for he mourned for the transgression of them that had been carried
away;
into captivity, but were now returned from it, and it grieved him the more, that, after such kindness shown them, they should be guilty of such an evil.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (lka al) "nondum comederat", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Esdra 10:6 In-Context

4 Lèvati, poiché questo e affar tuo, e noi sarem teco. Fatti animo, ed agisci!"

5 Allora Esdra si levò, fece giurare ai capi de’ sacerdoti, de’ Leviti, e di tutto Israele che farebbero com’era stato detto. E quelli giurarono.

6 Poi Esdra si levò d’innanzi alla casa di Dio, e andò nella camera di Johanan, figliuolo di Eliascib: e come vi fu entrato, non mangiò pane né bevve acqua, perché facea cordoglio per la infedeltà di quelli ch’erano stati in esilio.

7 E si bandì in Giuda e a Gerusalemme che tutti quelli della cattività si adunassero a Gerusalemme;

8 e che chiunque non venisse entro tre giorni seguendo il consiglio dei capi e degli anziani, tutti i suoi beni gli sarebbero confiscati, ed egli stesso sarebbe escluso dalla raunanza de’ reduci dalla cattività.