John Gill's Exposition on Ezra 9:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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There were assembled unto me everyone that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, etc.] That had a reverence for the word of God, and the things contained in it; feared to break the laws of God, and trembled at his judgments, which they might apprehend would come upon transgressors, (see <234602>Isaiah 46:2), because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; into Babylon, and were now returned, and which was an aggravation of their transgression: and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice: or until the ninth hour, as the Syriac version, which was about our three o’clock in the afternoon, at which time the evening sacrifice was offered; perhaps it was in the morning when Ezra first received his information from the princes.

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