Ezra 10:44

American Standard Version (1901)

All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezra 10:3 : 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 that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
  • Prov 5:20 : 20 For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezra 10:17-19
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    78%

    17And they made an end with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

    18And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

    19And 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 10:10-11
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    77%

    10And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

    11Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.

  • Ezra 10:43
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    43Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.

  • Ezra 10:14
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    14Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all them that are in our cities that have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter be despatched.

  • Neh 13:23-27
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    23In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:

    24and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

    25And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

    26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

    27Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

  • Ezra 9:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1Now when these things were done, the princes drew near unto me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

    2For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

  • Zech 12:13-14
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    13the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;

    14all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

  • Ezra 10:2-3
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    73%

    2And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto 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.

    3Now 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 that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

  • Ezra 2:61
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    61And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.

  • Judg 3:6
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    6and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

  • 1 Kgs 11:1-3
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    1Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

    2of the nations concerning which Jehovah said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

    3And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

  • Neh 10:27-28
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    72%

    27Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

    28And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they that had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one that had knowledge, and understanding;

  • Mal 2:11
    72%

    11Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • Exod 34:16
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    16and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods.

  • Ezek 44:22
    71%

    22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.

  • Jer 29:6
    71%

    6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
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    3And David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David begat more sons and daughters.

  • 1 Kgs 11:8
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    8And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
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    18and them that were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness.

  • Josh 23:12
    70%

    12Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;

  • Jer 44:9
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    9Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Neh 10:30
    70%

    30and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

  • 1 Chr 7:4
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    4And with them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the host for war, six and thirty thousand; for they had many wives and sons.

  • Neh 7:63
    70%

    63And of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.

  • Judg 21:23
    69%

    23And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.

  • Ezra 10:27
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    27And of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
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    13And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

  • Judg 8:30
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    30And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives.

  • Gen 6:2
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    2that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.

  • 2 Chr 13:21
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    21But Abijah waxed mighty, and took unto himself fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

  • Ezra 2:44
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  • Ruth 1:4
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  • Judg 11:2
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    2And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of another woman.

  • Judg 21:7
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    7How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by Jehovah that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?