Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezra 10:9

9 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 .

Not only of these two Tribes, as appears from the following Catalogue, where there are Priests and Levites; but all the Isralites, v. 25. who are thus described, partly because the greatest part of them were of these Tribes, though others were mixed with them: and partly because they all now dwelt in that Land which formerly was appropriated to those Tribes.

In that street of the City, which was next to the Temple, and within the view of it, that so they might be as in Gods presence, whereby they might be awed to a more faithful and vigorous prosecution of their work. And this place they might chuse rather than the Court of the People, because they thought it might be polluted by the delinquents, who were all to come thither.

Which they took for a token of Gods displeasure amongst them.

Marginal references: Heb. the showers.