Esdras 10:6

6 Então Esdras retirou-se de diante do templo de Deus e foi para o quarto de Joanã, filho de Eliasibe. Enquanto esteve ali, não comeu nem bebeu nada, lamentando a infidelidade dos exilados.

Esdras 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.

Esdras 10:6 In-Context

4 Levante-se! Esta questão está em suas mãos, mas nós o apoiaremos. Tenha coragem e mãos à obra!”

5 Esdras levantou-se e fez os sacerdotes principais, os levitas e todo o Israel jurarem que fariam o que fora sugerido. E eles juraram.

6 Então Esdras retirou-se de diante do templo de Deus e foi para o quarto de Joanã, filho de Eliasibe. Enquanto esteve ali, não comeu nem bebeu nada, lamentando a infidelidade dos exilados.

7 Fez-se então uma proclamação em todo o Judá e em Jerusalém convocando todos os exilados a se reunirem em Jerusalém.

8 Os líderes e as demais autoridades tinham decidido que aquele que não viesse no prazo de três dias perderia todos os seus bens e seria excluído da comunidade dos exilados.