Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezra 9:2

2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands : yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

This they had done, either, 1. In the Land of their Captivity, into which these People were carried as well as others, as appears from Ier. 25. 9, &c. Or rather, 2. Since their return, as may be gathered from [illegible: 1+ letters]. 8, 9, 10, 14.

Who should have restrained the People from this sin, by their authority and example, and by doing otherwise, made the sin more general, and involved themselves and the Nation in the guilt of it.