Ezra 10:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

By the first day of the first month, they finished questioning all the men who had taken foreign wives.

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  • Ezra 10:13-16
    4 verses
    82%

    13But there are many people, and it is a time of heavy rain, and we are not able to stand outside. Nor is this a task that can be accomplished in a day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

    14Let our leaders of the entire assembly stand, and let all those in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the fierce wrath of our God concerning this matter is turned away from us.

    15Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.

    16So the descendants of the captivity did accordingly. And Ezra the priest, along with certain heads of the fathers' households, each of them by name, were designated, and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

  • Ezra 10:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18Among the sons of the priests who had taken foreign wives were found among the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

    19They gave their promise that they would put away their wives. Being guilty, they presented a ram of the flock for their guilt offering.

  • Ezra 10:5-11
    7 verses
    77%

    5Then Ezra arose and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel swear that they would do according to this word. And they swore.

    6Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib. When he arrived there, he ate no bread and drank no water, for he mourned because of the transgression of those who had been taken captive.

    7And they issued a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather at Jerusalem;

    8and that whoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, all his property would be forfeited, and he himself would be separated from the congregation of those who had been carried away.

    9Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. All the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.

    10And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, You have transgressed and have taken foreign wives, adding to the guilt of Israel.

    11Now therefore 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 wives.

  • Ezra 10:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and laying himself down before the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.

    2And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have sinned against our God and have taken foreign wives from the peoples of the land, yet now there is hope for Israel in this matter.

    3Therefore, let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the advice of my lord and those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

  • Ezra 10:44
    75%

    44All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

  • Neh 13:27
    70%

    27Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?

  • Neh 10:27-30
    4 verses
    70%

    27Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

    28And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinims, and all those who had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone having knowledge and understanding;

    29They joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His judgments and His statutes;

    30And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

  • 2 Chr 29:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it to carry it out to the brook Kidron.

    17Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the porch of the LORD. So they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

  • Neh 8:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1And all the people gathered themselves together as one person in the street before the Water Gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

    2And Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly of men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.

  • Ezra 9:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

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

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

  • Neh 13:23
    68%

    23In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab;

  • Neh 13:30
    68%

    30Thus I cleansed them of everything foreign, and I assigned duties to the priests and the Levites, each to his service,

  • Ezra 6:19-20
    2 verses
    67%

    19And the children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

    20For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

  • Ezra 7:9-10
    2 verses
    67%

    9For on the first day of the first month he began his journey from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

    10For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

  • Neh 8:13
    66%

    13And on the second day, the heads of the fathers' houses of all the people, the priests, and the Levites gathered to Ezra the scribe to study the words of the law.

  • Neh 13:3
    65%

    3So it happened, when they heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.

  • Zech 12:14
    65%

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

  • Esth 9:17
    65%

    17On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

  • Neh 13:25
    64%

    25So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.

  • Ezra 3:1
    64%

    1And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one person to Jerusalem.

  • Hag 1:15
    64%

    15on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    64%

    18And to the genealogy of their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation, for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

  • Esth 9:21
    64%

    21To establish among them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

  • Esth 8:12
    64%

    12On a single day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, namely, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.