Esdra 9:1

1 Or quando queste cose furon finite, i capi s’accostarono a me, dicendo: "Il popolo d’Israele, i sacerdoti e i Leviti non si son separati dai popoli di questi paesi, ma si conformano alle abominazioni de’ Cananei, degli Hittei, de’ Ferezei, dei Gebusei, degli Ammoniti, dei Moabiti, degli Egiziani e degli Amorei.

Esdra 9:1 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 9:1

Now when these things were done
When the captives with Ezra had refreshed themselves, and weighed the money and vessels they brought, and put them into the hands of proper persons, and offered sacrifices, and delivered the king's commissions to his lieutenants and governors, and shown his own:

the princes came to me;
some of the nobles of Israel, the most religious of them, who were concerned at the corruptions that were among them, though not a sufficient number to reform them:

saying the people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not
separated themselves from the people of the land:
but joined with them, though not in idolatrous practices, yet by marrying with them, which might lead them into them:

doing according to their abominations;
not serving idols as they did, but imitating them in their marriages: even

of the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the
Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites;
affinity with many of these was forbidden by an express law, ( Deuteronomy 7:1 Deuteronomy 7:3 ) all but the Moabites, Ammonites, and Egyptians, and from these for the same reason they were to abstain; namely, lest they should be drawn into idolatry; that the priests and Levites should do this, who ought to have known the law, and instructed the people better, was very sad and shocking.

Esdra 9:1 In-Context

1 Or quando queste cose furon finite, i capi s’accostarono a me, dicendo: "Il popolo d’Israele, i sacerdoti e i Leviti non si son separati dai popoli di questi paesi, ma si conformano alle abominazioni de’ Cananei, degli Hittei, de’ Ferezei, dei Gebusei, degli Ammoniti, dei Moabiti, degli Egiziani e degli Amorei.
2 Poiché hanno preso delle loro figliuole per sé e per i propri figliuoli, e hanno mescolata la stirpe santa coi popoli di questi paesi; e i capi e i magistrati sono stati i primi a commettere questa infedeltà".
3 Quand’io ebbi udito questo, mi stracciai le vesti e il mantello, mi strappai i capelli della testa e della barba, e mi misi a sedere, costernato.
4 Allora tutti quelli che tremavano alle parole dell’Iddio d’Israele si radunarono presso di me a motivo della infedeltà di quelli ch’eran tornati dalla cattività; e io rimasi così seduto e costernato, fino al tempo dell’oblazione della sera.
5 E al momento dell’oblazione della sera, m’alzai dalla mia umiliazione, colle vesti e col mantello stracciati; caddi in ginocchi; stesi le mani verso l’Eterno, il mio Dio e dissi:
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