Ezra 10:2-3
Shecaniah <07935> [Shechaniah.]
Elam <05867> [Elam.]
unfaithful <04603> [We have trespassed.]
Shechaniah here speaks in the name of the people, not acknowledging himself culpable; for he is not in the following list.
[Compare.]
Nonetheless there is ... hope <03426 04723> [yet now there is hope.]
enact <03772> [let us make.]
{Nichrath berith,} "let us cut a covenant:"
send <03318> [put away. Heb. bring forth. according to the counsel.]
respect <02730> [of those that.]
commandments <04687> [at the commandment.]
it ... done <06213> [let it.]
Shechaniah's counsel, which he was then so clear in, will not hold now: such marriages, it is certain, are contrary to the will of God, and ought not to be made; but they are not null. Our rule under the gospel is {Quod fieri non debuit, factum valet,} "That which ought not to have been done must, when done, abide." See .# 1Co 7:12,13
