Ezra, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and
casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered
together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women
and children; for the people wept very sore. {10:2} 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 peoples of the
land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing. {10:3}
Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the
wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my
lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let
it be done according to the law. {10:4} Arise; for the matter belongs
to you, and we are with you: be of good courage, and do it. {10:5}
Then arose Ezra, 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. {10:6} Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and
went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and [when] he
came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because
of the trespass of them of the captivity. {10:7} They made
proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the
captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem;
{10:8} and that whoever didn't come within three days, according to
the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be
forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.
{10:9} 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] of the month: and all the people sat in the
broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter,
and for the great rain. {10:10} Ezra the priest stood up, and said to
them, You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase
the guilt of Israel. {10:11} Now therefore make confession to Yahweh,
the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves
from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women. {10:12} Then
all the assembly answered with a loud voice, As you have said
concerning us, so must we do. {10:13} But the people are many, and it
is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside: neither
is this a work of one day or two; for we have greatly transgressed in
this matter. {10:14} Let now 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, and with them the elders of
every city, and the judges of it, until the fierce wrath of our God be
turned from us, until this matter be dispatched. {10:15} Only Jonathan
the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this
[matter]: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. {10:16}
The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, [with] certain
heads of fathers' [houses], after their fathers' houses, and all of
them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first
day of the tenth month to examine the matter. {10:17} They made an end
with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the
first month. {10:18} Among the sons of the priests there were found
who had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua, the
son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib,
and Gedaliah. {10:19} They gave their hand that they would put away
their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for
their guilt. {10:20} Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
{10:21} Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and
Jehiel, and Uzziah. {10:22} Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai,
Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah. {10:23} Of the
Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelita),
Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. {10:24} Of the singers: Eliashib. Of
the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri. {10:25} Of Israel: Of the
sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and
Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah. {10:26} Of the sons of Elam:
Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.
{10:27} Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and
Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza. {10:28} Of the sons of Bebai:
Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai. {10:29} Of the sons of Bani:
Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth. {10:30}
Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah,
Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh. {10:31} [of] the sons of
Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, {10:32}
Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah. {10:33} Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai,
Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei. {10:34} Of the
sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel, {10:35} Benaiah, Bedeiah,
Cheluhi, {10:36} Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, {10:37} Mattaniah,
Mattenai, and Jaasu, {10:38} and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei, {10:39} and
Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah, {10:40} Machnadebai, Shashai,
Sharai, {10:41} Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah, {10:42} Shallum,
Amariah, Joseph. {10:43} Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah,
Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah. {10:44} All these had taken
foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
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