Ezra Chapter 10

• Ezra 10:1
  Ezra.
• Ezra 10:2
  Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a ver...
• Ezra 10:3
  Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the people...
• Ezra 10:4
  Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord and of ...
• Ezra 10:5
  Arise, for the matter belongs to you and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”
• Ezra 10:6
  Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.
• Ezra 10:7
  Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he didn’t eat bread or drink w...
• Ezra 10:8
  They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem...
• Ezra 10:9
  and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and h...
• Ezra 10:10
  Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day o...
• Ezra 10:11
  Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel.
• Ezra 10:12
  Now therefore make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his pleasure. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the ...
• Ezra 10:13
  Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “We must do as you have said concerning us.
• Ezra 10:14
  But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatl...
• Ezra 10:15
  Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times,...
• Ezra 10:16
  Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
• Ezra 10:17
  The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by thei...
• Ezra 10:18
  They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
• Ezra 10:19
  Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, E...
• Ezra 10:20
  They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
• Ezra 10:21
  Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
• Ezra 10:22
  Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.
• Ezra 10:23
  Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
• Ezra 10:24
  Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
• Ezra 10:25
  Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
• Ezra 10:26
  Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah.
• Ezra 10:27
  Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.
• Ezra 10:28
  Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.
• Ezra 10:29
  Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.
• Ezra 10:30
  Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.
• Ezra 10:31
  Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.
• Ezra 10:32
  Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
• Ezra 10:33
  Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
• Ezra 10:34
  Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.
• Ezra 10:35
  Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,
• Ezra 10:36
  Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
• Ezra 10:37
  Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
• Ezra 10:38
  Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu,
• Ezra 10:39
  Bani, Binnui, Shimei,
• Ezra 10:40
  Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,
• Ezra 10:41
  Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
• Ezra 10:42
  Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,
• Ezra 10:43
  Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
• Ezra 10:44
  Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, Joel, and Benaiah.
• Ezra 10:45
  All these had taken foreign wives. Some of them had wives by whom they had children.