Ezra 10:11-19
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Now then a make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers and do his will. b Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives."
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Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, "It is so; we must do as you have said.
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But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
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Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come c at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, d until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us."
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Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and e Meshullam and f Shabbethai the Levite supported them.
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Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers' houses, according to their fathers' houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;
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and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.
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Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of g Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers.
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They h pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was i a ram of the flock for their guilt.
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Cross References
Joshua 7:19
Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel and give praise to him. And tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.
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Cross References
Ezra 10:3
Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.
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Cross References
Nehemiah 13:31
And I provided for the wood offering at appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 29:10
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
Numbers 25:4
And the Lord said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the Lord, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.
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Cross References
Ezra 8:16
Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight.
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Cross References
Nehemiah 11:16
And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God.
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Cross References
Ezra 3:2
Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.
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Cross References
2 Kings 10:15
And when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. And he greeted him and said to him, "Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?" And Jehonadab answered, "It is." Jehu said, "If it is, give me your hand." So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.
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Cross References
Leviticus 6:6
And he shall bring to the priest as his compensation to the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent for a guilt offering.
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