Esdras 9:1

Esdras confiesa el pecado del pueblo

1 Después de todo esto, se me acercaron los jefes y me dijeron: «El pueblo de Israel, incluso los sacerdotes y levitas, no se ha mantenido separado de los pueblos vecinos, sino que practica las costumbres abominables de todos ellos, es decir, de los cananeos, hititas, ferezeos, jebuseos, amonitas, moabitas, egipcios y amorreos.

Esdras 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.

Esdras 9:1 In-Context

1 Después de todo esto, se me acercaron los jefes y me dijeron: «El pueblo de Israel, incluso los sacerdotes y levitas, no se ha mantenido separado de los pueblos vecinos, sino que practica las costumbres abominables de todos ellos, es decir, de los cananeos, hititas, ferezeos, jebuseos, amonitas, moabitas, egipcios y amorreos.

2 De entre las mujeres de esos pueblos han tomado esposas para sí mismos y para sus hijos, mezclando así la raza santa con la de los pueblos vecinos. Y los primeros en cometer tal infidelidad han sido los jefes y los gobernantes».

3 Cuando escuché esto, me rasgué la túnica y el manto, me arranqué los pelos de la cabeza y de la barba, y me postré muy angustiado.

4 Entonces, por causa del pecado cometido por los repatriados, se reunieron a mi alrededor todos los que obedecían la palabra de Dios. Y yo seguí angustiado hasta la hora del sacrificio de la tarde.

5 A la hora del sacrificio me recobré de mi abatimiento y, con la túnica y el manto rasgados, caí de rodillas, extendí mis manos hacia el SEÑOR mi Dios,