Ezra 10:17

17 and within the next three months they investigated all the cases of men with foreign wives.

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 No one was opposed to the plan except Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, who had the support of Meshullam and of Shabbethai, a Levite.

16 The returned exiles accepted the plan, so Ezra the priest appointed men from among the heads of the clans and recorded their names. On the first day of the tenth month they began their investigation,

17 and within the next three months they investigated all the cases of men with foreign wives.

18 This is the list of the men who had foreign wives: [Priests, ]listed by clans: Clan of Joshua and his brothers, sons of Jehozadak: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

19 They promised to divorce their wives, and they offered a ram as a sacrifice for their sins.