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    Ezra 10

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    A national crisis begins with tears, proceeds by oath, and then has to pause for the rainy season; by the end, a long roll of names quietly adds that some of the men had children by the wives being sent away.

    Tears, oaths, and an inconvenient skyvv. 1–17

    Ezra is still praying, weeping, and lying facedown before the house of God when a vast assembly gathers and takes up the weeping. Shecaniah son of Jehiel then supplies the chapter’s startling pivot: Israel has been unfaithful, but “there is hope.” Ezra is told to rise, the leaders swear an oath, and he withdraws to the chamber of Jehohanan, where mourning takes the practical form of eating and drinking nothing.

    A summons brings the exiles to Jerusalem within three days, under threat of forfeited property and expulsion. They arrive and sit in the square at the house of God, trembling over the matter and the heavy rain. Ezra calls for separation; the assembly agrees, but sensibly observes that there are many people, that it is the rainy season, and that a matter of such magnitude cannot be dispatched in a day or two. Jonathan and Jahzeiah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, oppose the plan; everyone else lets the family heads conduct the investigation, which begins on the first day of the tenth month and finishes by the first day of the first month.

    The register, with its little surprisesvv. 18–44

    The investigation ends in a long procession of families: priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and the other Israelites. The descendants of Jeshua pledge to send their wives away and offer a ram; the rest are chiefly given as names beneath the headings of Immer, Harim, Pashhur, Parosh, Elam, Zattu, Bebai, Bani, Pahath-moab, Hashum, Binnui, and Nebo.

    The list is generally as solemn as a ledger can be, though Parosh supplies two Malchijahs in a single line, as if the roll briefly lost its place and then carried on regardless. The final sentence gathers the whole register into one stark handful of words: every man named had married a foreign woman, and some had children by those wives. The chapter has spent twenty-seven verses naming the men, and leaves the children in the margin of the conclusion.

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    1. Ezra 10:1While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.

    2. Ezra 10:2Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.

    3. Ezra 10:3So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.

    4. Ezra 10:4Get up, for this matter is your responsibility, and we will support you. Be strong and take action!”

    5. Ezra 10:5So Ezra got up and made the leading priests, Levites, and all Israel take an oath to do what had been said. And they took the oath.

    6. Ezra 10:6Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

    7. Ezra 10:7And a proclamation was issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem.

    8. Ezra 10:8Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.

    9. Ezra 10:9So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of the heavy rain.

    10. Ezra 10:10Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.

    11. Ezra 10:11Now, therefore, make a confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from your foreign wives.”

    12. Ezra 10:12And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: “Truly we must do as you say!

    13. Ezra 10:13But there are many people here, and it is the rainy season. We are not able to stay out in the open. Nor is this the work of one or two days, for we have transgressed greatly in this matter.

    14. Ezra 10:14Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

    15. Ezra 10:15(Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, opposed this plan.)

    16. Ezra 10:16So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation,

    17. Ezra 10:17and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.

    18. Ezra 10:18Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

    19. Ezra 10:19They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.

    20. Ezra 10:20From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

    21. Ezra 10:21From the descendants of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.

    22. Ezra 10:22From the descendants of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

    23. Ezra 10:23Among the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

    24. Ezra 10:24From the singers: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

    25. Ezra 10:25And among the other Israelites, from the descendants of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah.

    26. Ezra 10:26From the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.

    27. Ezra 10:27From the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.

    28. Ezra 10:28From the descendants of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.

    29. Ezra 10:29From the descendants of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.

    30. Ezra 10:30From the descendants of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.

    31. Ezra 10:31From the descendants of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

    32. Ezra 10:32Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.

    33. Ezra 10:33From the descendants of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.

    34. Ezra 10:34From the descendants of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,

    35. Ezra 10:35Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,

    36. Ezra 10:36Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,

    37. Ezra 10:37Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu.

    38. Ezra 10:38From the descendants of Binnui: Shimei,

    39. Ezra 10:39Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,

    40. Ezra 10:40Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

    41. Ezra 10:41Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,

    42. Ezra 10:42Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.

    43. Ezra 10:43And from the descendants of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah.

    44. Ezra 10:44All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

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    • 1Daniel 9:20While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and that of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning His holy mountain—
    • 41 Chronicles 28:10Consider now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.”
    • 4Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
    • 1Psalms 119:136My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
    • 3Deuteronomy 7:2–3and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
    • 4Hebrews 10:24And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.
    • 41 Chronicles 22:19Now set your heart and soul to seek the LORD your God. Begin building the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy articles of God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the LORD.”
    • 4Hebrews 12:12–13Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.
    • 1Romans 9:2I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
    • 3Ezra 9:4Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles, while I sat there in horror until the evening offering.
    • 4Isaiah 35:3–4Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
    • 5Nehemiah 13:25I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!
    • 11 Kings 8:30Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
    • 11 John 1:8–10If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
    • 41 Chronicles 22:16in gold and silver, bronze and iron—craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and may the LORD be with you.”
    • 5Nehemiah 5:12“We will restore it,” they replied, “and will require nothing more from them. We will do as you say.” So I summoned the priests and required of the nobles and officials an oath that they would do what they had promised.

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