Ezra 10:44

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All these had married foreign women, and some of them had even fathered children by them.

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  • Ezra 10:3 : 3 So now, let us make a covenant with our God to send away all these women and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done in accordance with the Law.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 It will save you from the wayward woman, from the foreign woman with her flattering words,
  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil.
  • Prov 5:20 : 20 Why, my son, should you be captivated by a forbidden woman or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezra 10:17-19
    3 verses
    78%

    17 By the first day of the first month, they had finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women.

    18 Among the descendants of the priests, the following were found to have married foreign women: From the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers, Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

    19 They gave their hands in pledge to put away their wives, and for their guilt they offered a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.

  • Ezra 10:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10 Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have been unfaithful; you have married foreign women, adding to Israel's guilt.

    11 Now make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.

  • Ezra 10:43
    76%

    43 From the descendants of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah.

  • Ezra 10:14
    76%

    14 Let our leaders act on behalf of the entire assembly. Then let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at appointed times, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God regarding this matter is turned away from us.

  • Neh 13:23-27
    5 verses
    75%

    23 Additionally, in those days I saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

    24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of other peoples, but they could not speak the language of Judah.

    25 So I confronted them, cursed them, struck some of them, pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God: 'You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.'

    26 Did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin because of such things? Among the many nations, there was no king like him; he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Yet, even he was led into sin by foreign women.

    27 Must we then hear about you committing all this terrible evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?

  • Ezra 9:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 When these things were completed, the officials approached me and said, 'The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not separated themselves from the surrounding peoples and their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.'

    2 They have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, and they have mingled the holy seed with the peoples of the lands. Furthermore, the leaders and officials have been foremost in this unfaithfulness.

  • Zech 12:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 The family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves.

    14 All the remaining families, each family by itself, and their wives by themselves.

  • Ezra 10:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, "We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the peoples around us. But even now there is hope for Israel regarding this.

    3 So now, let us make a covenant with our God to send away all these women and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done in accordance with the Law.

  • Ezra 2:61
    73%

    61 And from the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai—who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and took that name.

  • Judg 3:6
    73%

    6 They took the daughters of these peoples as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to the sons of these peoples, and worshiped their gods.

  • 1 Kgs 11:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 King Solomon loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter—Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women.

    2 These were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, 'You must not intermarry with them, and they must not intermarry with you, for they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.' Nevertheless, Solomon clung to them in love.

    3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.

  • Neh 10:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27 and Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,

    28 Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.

  • Mal 2:11
    72%

    11 Judah has been unfaithful, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • Exod 34:16
    72%

    16 And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.

  • Ezek 44:22
    71%

    22 They must not marry widows or divorced women, but only virgins of Israelite descent or widows who were married to priests.

  • Jer 29:6
    71%

    6 Take wives and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage so they may have sons and daughters. Multiply there, and do not decrease.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    70%

    3 David took more wives in Jerusalem, and he had more sons and daughters.

  • 1 Kgs 11:8
    70%

    8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    70%

    18 They included the registration of all their dependents—their wives, their sons, and their daughters—throughout the entire congregation, as they sanctified themselves in faithfulness and holiness.

  • Josh 23:12
    70%

    12 But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry with them and associate with them,

  • Jer 44:9
    70%

    9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, 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%

    30 joined together with their relatives and nobles, committing themselves with a curse and an oath to follow the Law of God, given through Moses, the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations, and decrees of the LORD our Lord.

  • 1 Chr 7:4
    70%

    4 Alongside these, according to their generations and their ancestral families, were divisions of warriors for battle—thirty-six thousand in total, for they had many wives and children.

  • Neh 7:63
    70%

    63 And from among the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai (who had married the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and took their name).

  • Judg 21:23
    69%

    23 So the Benjaminites did as instructed. They took wives according to their number from the dancers they had seized. Then they went back to their inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.

  • Ezra 10:27
    69%

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

  • 2 Sam 5:13
    69%

    13 After coming from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

  • Judg 8:30
    69%

    30 Gideon had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives.

  • Gen 6:2
    69%

    2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humanity were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves from whomever they chose.

  • 2 Chr 13:21
    69%

    21 But Abijah grew stronger. He married fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

  • Ezra 2:44
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    44 the descendants of Keros, Siaha, and Padon.

  • Num 36:11
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    11 Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married their cousins.

  • Ruth 1:4
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    4 These sons married Moabite women. One was named Orpah, and the other was named Ruth. They lived there about ten years.

  • Judg 11:2
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    2 Gilead's wife also bore him sons, and when they grew up, they drove Jephthah away, saying, 'You will have no inheritance in our father's house because you are the son of another woman.'

  • Judg 21:7
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    7 'What can we do for the survivors to provide wives, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters?'