Ezra 10:1

While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.

From Background Notes [BN] for February 4^th/5^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

This is a moving portrait of a faithful high priest, interceding for God’s people…

…yet it is also a picture of a man who does not receive a revelation from God. Nowhere in the text do we hear it said, “And Yahweh spoke to Ezra, and said …” Unlike the voice of God to Abraham or Moses, we have no word from the Lord except what Ezra reads from Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible). The dialog is between the God who spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets and Ezra in his prayer. Still, the message of the biblical text was sufficient to bolster Ezra’s confidence in the God who was able to forgive His people. [BN,6]

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