Exo 18:17-24, 1Sa 23:16-17, Ezr 10:2-4, Pro 15:23, 16:21, 23-24 | TSK

rulers of thousands.Whatever matter the {decarch,} or ruler over ten, could not decide, went to the {pentecontarch,} or ruler of fifty, and thence by degrees to the {hecatontarch,} or ruler over a hundred, to the {chiliarch,} or ruler over a thousand, to Moses, and at length to God himself. Each magistrate had the care or inspection of only ten men; the {decarch} superintended ten private characters; the {hecatontarch} ten {decarchs;} and the {chiliarch,} ten {hecatontarchs.}

Nu 10:4; De 1:15; Jos 22:14; 1Sa 8:12

at all seasons.

26; Ro 13:6

great.

Le 24:11; Nu 15:33; 27:2; 36:1; De 1:17; 17:8,9

they shall.

18; Nu 11:17

God.

18; Ge 21:10-12; 1Sa 8:6,7,22; Ac 15:2; Ga 2:2

and all this.

16:29; Ge 18:33; 30:25; 2Sa 18:3; 19:39; 21:17; Php 1:24,25

2-5,19; Ezr 10:2,5; Pr 1:5; 1Co 12:21

1 Samuel 23:16-17

strengthened.

De 3:28; Ne 2:18; Job 4:3,4; 16:5; Pr 27:9,17; Ec 4:9-12

Isa 35:3,4; Eze 13:22; Lu 22:32,43; Eph 6:10; 2Ti 2:1

Heb 12:12,13

Fear not.

Isa 41:10,14; Heb 13:6

shall not.

Job 5:11-15; Ps 27:1-3; 46:1,2; 91:1,2; Pr 14:26; Isa 54:17

thou shalt be.

Lu 12:32

I shall be.

Pr 19:21; Ac 28:16; Ro 15:24

that also Saul.

20:31; 24:20; Ac 5:39

Ezra 10:2-4

Shechaniah.

26; Ne 3:29

Elam.

2:7,31; Ne 7:12,34

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.

Jas 2:9; Ex 34:12; Ne 13:27

yet now there is hope.

Ex 34:6,7; Isa 55:6,7; Jer 3:12,13; 1Jo 1:7-9

let us make.{Nichrath berith,} "let us cut a covenant:"

De 29:12; Jos 9:6; 2Ki 11:17; 2Ch 29:10; 34:31,32; Ne 9:38

Ne 10:29-39

put away. Heb. bring forth. according to the counsel.

2Ch 30:12

of those that.

9:4; 2Ch 34:21,27; Ps 119:59,120; Isa 66:2; Eze 9:4

at the commandment.

De 7:2,3; Jos 23:12,13

let it.

Ne 8:14; 13:1-3; Isa 8:20Shechaniah'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

Arise.

Jos 7:10-26; 1Ch 22:16,19; Ec 9:10

for this matter.By the decree of Artaxerxes, Ezra was authorised to do every thing that the law of God required.

7:23-28; Mr 13:34

we also will.

Jos 1:16-18; 1Ch 28:10,21

be of good.

Isa 35:3,4; Heb 10:24; 12:12,13