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Ezra 10:1-9
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Reconciliation with God
1 Now 1while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself 2before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept bitterly *.
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Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, "3We have been unfaithful to our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
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"So now 4let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and 5their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of 6those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done 7according to the law.
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Then Ezra rose and 9made the leading priests, the Levites and all Israel, take oath that they would do according to this proposal; so they took the oath.
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Then Ezra 10rose from before * the house of God and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. Although he went there, 11he did not eat bread nor drink water, for he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
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They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the exiles *, that they should assemble at Jerusalem,
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and that whoever * would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the leaders and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited and he himself excluded from the assembly of the exiles.
Ezra 10:1-9 Meaning and Commentary
INTRODUCTION TO EZRA 10
Upon Ezra's prayer and confession, it was proposed by Shechaniah, that those who had married strange wives should put them away with their children, which they swore to do, Ezr 10:1-5, and proclamation was made throughout the land for all to meet at Jerusalem in three days' time, and accordingly they did, Ezr 10:6-9 when, at the exhortation of Ezra, all agreed to it, and persons were appointed to see it done, and the work was finished in the space of three months, Ezr 10:10-17 and a list of the names of those is given who had married such wives, and now put them away; of the priests, Ezr 10:18-22, of the Levites, Ezr 10:23,24, of the other Israelites, Ezr 10:24-44.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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