Ezra 10:44

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ezra 10:3 : 3 Therefore, 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.
  • Prov 2:16 : 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words;
  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
  • Prov 5:20 : 20 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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  • Ezra 10:17-19
    3 verses
    78%

    17By the first day of the first month, they finished questioning all the men who had taken foreign wives.

    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 10:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    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 10:43
    76%

    43Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah.

  • Ezra 10:14
    76%

    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.

  • Neh 13:23-27
    5 verses
    75%

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

    24and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of each people.

    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.

    26Did not King Solomon of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, pagan women caused even him to sin.

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

  • Ezra 9:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Zech 12:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

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

  • Ezra 10:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    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 2:61
    73%

    61And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name:

  • Judg 3:6
    73%

    6And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

  • 1 Kgs 11:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1But King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites.

    2Of the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the children of Israel, You shall not go to them, nor shall they come to you: for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods: Solomon clung to 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
    2 verses
    72%

    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;

  • Mal 2:11
    72%

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

  • Exod 34:16
    72%

    16And you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and make your sons go whoring after their gods.

  • Ezek 44:22
    71%

    22Neither shall they marry widows, nor her who is divorced; but they shall take virgins of the descendants of the house of Israel, or a widow who had a priest before.

  • Jer 29:6
    71%

    6Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may have sons and daughters; that you may increase there and not diminish.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    70%

    3And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.

  • 1 Kgs 11:8
    70%

    8And likewise he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    70%

    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:

  • Josh 23:12
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    12Otherwise, if you do at all turn back, and join to the remnant of these nations, even those that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you:

  • Jer 44:9
    70%

    9Have you 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 have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Neh 10:30
    70%

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

  • 1 Chr 7:4
    70%

    4And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were groups of soldiers for war, thirty-six thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.

  • Neh 7:63
    70%

    63And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name.

  • Judg 21:23
    69%

    23And the children of Benjamin did so, and took wives according to their number, from those who danced, whom they caught; and they went and returned to their inheritance, and rebuilt the cities, and dwelt in them.

  • Ezra 10:27
    69%

    27Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
    69%

    13And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.

  • Judg 8:30
    69%

    30And Gideon had seventy sons born to him: for he had many wives.

  • Gen 6:2
    69%

    2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.

  • 2 Chr 13:21
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    21But Abijah became mighty, and married fourteen wives, and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

  • Ezra 2:44
    69%

    44The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

  • Num 36:11
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    11For Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons.

  • Ruth 1:4
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    4And they took wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they lived there about ten years.

  • Judg 11:2
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    2And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they drove Jephthah out, and said to him, You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of a strange woman.

  • Judg 21:7
    68%

    7What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them our daughters as wives?