Ezra 10:1-4

The People Confess Their Sin

1 1While Ezra prayed and 2made confession, weeping and 3casting himself down 4before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.
2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: 5"We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
3 Therefore 6let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and 7their children, according to the counsel of my lord [a] and of 8those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done 9according to the Law.
4 Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; 10be strong and do it."

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Cross References 10

  • 1. Nehemiah 1:4, 5
  • 2. Nehemiah 1:6; Daniel 9:20
  • 3. Deuteronomy 9:18
  • 4. [2 Chronicles 20:9]
  • 5. See Ezra 9:2
  • 6. 2 Chronicles 34:31
  • 7. [ver. 44]
  • 8. Ezra 9:4
  • 9. Deuteronomy 7:2, 3
  • 10. 1 Chronicles 28:10; [2 Chronicles 19:11]

Footnotes 1

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