Matthew Poole and continuators on Nehemiah 9:2

2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers , and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers .

From all familiar, and unnecessary society with the heathens, and particularly from those strange Women whom some of them had married. For though Ezra had done this formerly, Ezra 10. as far as he had knowledge of the persons faulty, and power to redress their faults, yet, it seems, there were some criminals, who were either without his knowledge, or out of his power: or, these were some new delinquents that since that time had fallen into the same errour, and shewed the truth of their repentance, by the forsaking of their beloved sins, and dearest relations. See again, Nehe. 13. 3.

Which they confess partly as one cause of their present sufferings: and partly because they by their practises had justified their fathers sins, and made them their own.

Marginal references: Ezra 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. 11. Chap. 13. [illegible: 1+ letters]0.; Heb. [illegible: 1 word] of a [illegible: 1 word].