Ezra 10:9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month… The text teaches — I. THAT IT IS THE TENDENCY OF SIN TO PRODUCE SORROW AND CONSTERNATION OF SOUL. There is a scorpion sin in remembered guilt when outward troubles and inward fears meet together (Genesis 42:21). II. THAT GOD MARES WITH PECULIAR INTEREST THE TIME IF' WHICH REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE BEGINS IN THE SOW. III. THAT REPENTANCE WHEN IT IS REAL WILL BRING FORTH ITS APPROPRIATE FRUITS. IV. THAT THE NAMES AND PERSONS OF GENUINE PENITENTS ARE FOR EVER PRECIOUS TO GOD AND RECORDED IN HIS BOOK. (Samuel Thodey.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain. |
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