All these had taken foreign wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
All Commentaries on Ezra 10:44 Go To Ezra 10
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Children. Hebrew may be, "and some of these women had exposed their children. "But most follow the Septuagint and Vulgate. 3 Esdras ix. 36, "and they ejected them with their children. "None was spared. (Calmet)
One great inconvenience of such connections is, that the offspring is illegitimate. (Worthington)
Only 17 priests, 10 Levites, and 86 laymen, are stigmatized as guilty of this scandal; yet these fill Israel with confusion, and Esdras with extreme affliction. (Haydock)
