Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezra 9:1

1 NOw when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands , doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite.

Who feared God, and understood that Ezra was come with large Commission from the King, and with this design, to reform all disorders, whereof this was not the least.

i. e. From the Heathen Nations round about them, which God had expresly commanded them to do, Deut. 7. 2, 3.

To wit, either, 1. Marrying promiscuously whomsoever they liked, as the Heathens used to do; Or, 2. Imitating them in their Idolatrous or other wicked practices, into which they were drawn by their Heathenish Affinities. Although they are not charged with any other crime besides their Marriage in the following account of it.