Ezra 10:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

All the assembly replied in a loud voice:“We will do just as you have said!

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezra 10:3-4 : 3 Therefore let us enact a covenant with our God to send away all these women and their offspring, in keeping with your counsel, my lord, and that of those who respect the commandments of our God. And let it be done according to the law. 4 Get up, for this matter concerns you. We are with you, so be strong and act decisively!”
  • Neh 13:23 : 23 Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
  • Ps 78:57 : 57 They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.

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    13However, the people are numerous and it is the rainy season. We are unable to stand here outside. Furthermore, this business cannot be resolved in a day or two, for we have sinned greatly in this matter.

    14Let our leaders take steps on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter.”

  • Exod 19:8
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    8and all the people answered together,“All that the LORD has commanded we will do!” So Moses brought the words of the people back to the LORD.

  • Exod 24:3
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    3Moses came and told the people all the LORD’s words and all the decisions. All the people answered together,“We are willing to do all the words that the LORD has said,”

  • Ezra 10:9-11
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    76%

    9All the men of Judah and Benjamin were gathered in Jerusalem within the three days.(It was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of that month.) All the people sat in the square at the temple of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rains.

    10Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them,“You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel.

    11Now give praise to the LORD God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents and from these foreign wives.”

  • Deut 1:14
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    14You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.

  • Ezra 10:1-5
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    74%

    1The People Confess Their Sins While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites– men, women, and children alike– gathered around him. The people wept loudly.

    2Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, addressed Ezra:“We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the local peoples. Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard.

    3Therefore let us enact a covenant with our God to send away all these women and their offspring, in keeping with your counsel, my lord, and that of those who respect the commandments of our God. And let it be done according to the law.

    4Get up, for this matter concerns you. We are with you, so be strong and act decisively!”

    5So Ezra got up and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath to carry out this plan. And they all took a solemn oath.

  • Deut 5:27-28
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    27You go near so that you can hear everything the LORD our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”

    28When the LORD heard you speaking to me, he said to me,“I have heard what these people have said to you– they have spoken well.

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    12They replied,“We will return these things, and we will no longer demand anything from them. We will do just as you say.” Then I called the priests and made the wealthy and the officials swear to do what had been promised.

  • 1 Chr 13:4
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    4The whole assembly agreed to do this, for the proposal seemed right to all the people.

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    10“And now what are we able to say after this, our God? For we have forsaken your commandments

  • Josh 24:16
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    16The people responded,“Far be it from us to abandon the LORD so we can worship other gods!

  • Exod 24:7
    72%

    7He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said,“We are willing to do and obey all that the LORD has spoken.”

  • Neh 10:29
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    29hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders and enter into a curse and an oath to adhere to the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, along with his ordinances and his statutes.

  • Josh 1:16-17
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    16They told Joshua,“We will do everything you say. We will go wherever you send us.

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  • Neh 1:7
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    7We have behaved corruptly against you, not obeying the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments that you commanded your servant Moses.

  • Deut 1:41
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  • Neh 13:27
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    27Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?”

  • Judg 10:15
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    15But the Israelites said to the LORD,“We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!”

  • 2 Chr 15:14
    70%

    14They swore their allegiance to the LORD, shouting their approval loudly and sounding trumpets and horns.

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    31Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered,“Your servants will do what the LORD has spoken.

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    6The LORD said to me,“Announce all the following words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem:‘Listen to the terms of my covenant with you and carry them out!

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  • Jer 42:6
    69%

    6We will obey what the LORD our God to whom we are sending you tells us to do. It does not matter whether we like what he tells us or not. We will obey what he tells us to do so that things will go well for us.”

  • Dan 9:5
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    5we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards.

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    69%

    14Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?

  • Josh 9:19
    69%

    19but all the leaders told the whole community,“We swore an oath to them in the name of the LORD God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt them!

  • 2 Chr 15:12
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    12They solemnly agreed to seek the LORD God of their ancestors with their whole heart and being.

  • Lev 8:5
    69%

    5Then Moses said to the congregation:“This is what the LORD has commanded to be done.”

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    13Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom from your reliable moral standards.

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    11Our leaders and all who live in our land told us,‘Take provisions for your journey and go meet them. Tell them,“We are willing to be your subjects. Make a treaty with us.”’

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