Ezr 10:3-4, Neh 13:23, Psa 78:37, 57 | TSK | STEP | let us make.{Nichrath berith,} "let us cut a covenant:" put away. Heb. bring forth. according to the counsel. of those that. at the commandment. 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

Ezra 10:3-4

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