Ezra 10:17

17 They finished [investigating] all the men who married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

Ezra 10:17 Meaning and Commentary

Ezra 10:17

And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange
wives
Finished their inquiry and examination of them:

by the first day of the first month;
the month Nisan, answering to part of March and April; so that they were three months about this work.

Ezra 10:17 In-Context

15 Only Jehonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah stood against this, and the Levites Meshullam and Shabbethai supported them.

16 The {returned exiles} did so. Ezra the priest selected men, the heads of the {families} according to the house of their fathers, all of them by name. They sat down to examine the matter on the first day of the tenth month.

17 They finished [investigating] all the men who married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

18 There was found from the sons of the priests those who had married foreign women, from the sons of Jeshua son of Jehozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

19 {They pledged themselves} to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.