Ezra 10:17

17 By the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.

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 Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levites supported them.

16 Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of families, according to their families, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter.

17 By the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.

18 There were found of the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women, of the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

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