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 bitterly. {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. Let it be done according to the law. {10:4} Arise; for the matter
belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it."
{10:5} 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. {10:6} Then Ezra rose up from before the house of
God, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and when
he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned
because of their trespass 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 the LORD, 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 its judges, until the fierce wrath of our
God be turned from us, until this matter is resolved."
{10:15} Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of
Tikvah stood up against this; 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' households, 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: of
the sons of Yeshua, 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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