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the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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エズラ記 6:21

21 そして捕囚から帰って来たイスラエルの人々、およびその地の異邦人の汚れを捨てて彼らに連なり、イスラエルの神、主を拝しようとする者はすべてこれを食べ、

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Fellowship;   Levites;   Liberality;   Repentance;   Scofield Reference Index - Separation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Association-Separation;   Heathen;   Proselytes;   Separation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Heathen, the;   Proselytes;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Haggai;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Jeshua;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Gentiles;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Darius;   Ezra, Book of;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Thessalonians Epistles to the;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Captivities of the Jews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Filth;   Samaria, Country of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Esdras, Books of;   Holiness;   Judaism;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all such: Ezra 9:11, Numbers 9:6, Numbers 9:7, Numbers 9:10-14, Isaiah 52:11, Ezekiel 36:25, 2 Corinthians 6:17, 2 Corinthians 7:1

did eat: Exodus 12:47-49, Psalms 93:5

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 35:6 - So kill Nehemiah 12:30 - themselves Matthew 18:17 - a heathen

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity,.... The tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with some of the ten tribes mixed with them:

and all such as had separated themselves unto them, from the filthiness of the Heathen of the land, to seek the Lord God of Israel, did eat; such of the Gentiles in the dominions of Babylon, and came with the Jews from thence, who were enlightened into the knowledge and worship of the true God, and not only renounced their idolatry, here called filthiness, but were circumcised, and embraced the religion of the Jews, and so were proselytes of righteousness, as they call them; or otherwise they would not have been allowed to eat of the passover, as they did, Exodus 12:48.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 21. And all such as had separated themselves — These were the proselytes who had embraced the Jewish religion by having mingled with the Jews in their captivity. This proves that there the poor captives had so acted according to the principles of their religion, that the heathens saw it, and walked in the light of the Lord with them. A good example is very persuasive; and particularly so when founded on pure principles.


 
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