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Book of Ezra, Chapter 10

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Chapter 10 of Ezra—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ Now 1while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself 2before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept bitterly.
  2. Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, “3We have been unfaithful to our God and have [a]married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
  3. So now 4let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and [b]5their children, according to the counsel of [c]my lord and of 6those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done 7according to the law.
  4. Arise! For this matter is [d]your responsibility, but we will be with you; 8be courageous and act.”
  5. ¶ Then Ezra rose and 9made the leading priests, the Levites and all Israel, take oath that they would do according to this [e]proposal; so they took the oath.
  6. Then Ezra 10rose from before the house of God and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. Although he went there, 11he did not eat bread nor drink water, for he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
  7. They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the exiles, that they should assemble at Jerusalem,
  8. and that whoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the leaders and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited and he himself excluded from the assembly of the exiles.
  9. ¶ So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth of the month, and all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, 12trembling because of this matter and the heavy rain.
  10. Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful and have married foreign wives adding to the guilt of Israel.
  11. Now therefore, 13make confession to the LORD God of your fathers and 14do His will; and 15separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”
  12. Then all the assembly replied with a loud voice, “That’s right! As you have said, so it is [f]our duty to do.
  13. But there are many people; it is the rainy season and we are not able to stand in the open. Nor can the task be done in one or two days, for we have transgressed greatly in this matter.
  14. Let our leaders [g]represent the whole assembly and let all those in our cities who have married foreign wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the 16fierce anger of our God on account of this matter is turned away from us.”
  15. Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah [h]opposed this, with Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supporting them.
  16. ¶ But the exiles did so. And [i]Ezra the priest selected men who were heads of fathers’ households for each of their father’s households, all of them by name. So they [j]convened on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.
  17. They finished investigating all the men who had married foreign wives by the first day of the first month.
  18. ¶ Among the sons of the priests who had married foreign wives were found of the sons of 17Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah.
  19. They [k]pledged to put away their wives, and being guilty, 18they offered a ram of the flock for their offense.
  20. Of the sons of Immer there were Hanani and Zebadiah;
  21. and of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel and Uzziah;
  22. and of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad and Elasah.
  23. ¶ Of Levites there were Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah and Eliezer.
  24. ¶ Of the singers there was Eliashib; and of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem and Uri.
  25. ¶ Of Israel, of the sons of 19Parosh there were Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah and Benaiah;
  26. and of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth and Elijah;
  27. and of the sons of 20Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad and Aziza;
  28. and of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai and Athlai;
  29. and of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch and Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal and Jeremoth;
  30. and of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui and Manasseh;
  31. and of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, 21Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
  32. Benjamin, Malluch and Shemariah;
  33. of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh and Shimei;
  34. of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,
  35. Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
  36. Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
  37. Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu,
  38. Bani, Binnui, Shimei,
  39. Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,
  40. Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
  41. Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,
  42. Shallum, Amariah and Joseph.
  43. Of the sons of 22Nebo there were Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel and Benaiah.
  44. All these had married 23foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit given dwelling to
  2. ^ Lit that which is born of them
  3. ^ Or the Lord
  4. ^ Lit upon you
  5. ^ Lit word, thing
  6. ^ Lit upon us
  7. ^ Lit stand for
  8. ^ Lit stood against
  9. ^ Heb reads there were set apart Ezra the priest, men...
  10. ^ Lit sat
  11. ^ Lit gave their hand

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Da 9:4, 20
  2. ^ 2Ch 20:9
  3. ^ Ezr 9:2; Ne 13:27
  4. ^ 2Ch 34:31
  5. ^ Ezr 10:44
  6. ^ Ezr 9:4
  7. ^ De 7:2, 3
  8. ^ 1Ch 28:10
  9. ^ Ne 5:12; 13:25
  10. ^ Ezr 10:1
  11. ^ De 9:18
  12. ^ 1Sa 12:18; Ezr 9:4; 10:3
  13. ^ Le 26:40; Pr 28:13
  14. ^ Ro 12:2
  15. ^ Ezr 10:3
  16. ^ 2Ki 23:26; 2Ch 28:11-13; 29:10; 30:8
  17. ^ Ezr 5:2; Hg 1:1, 12; 2:4; Zc 3:1; 6:11
  18. ^ Le 5:15; 6:6
  19. ^ Ezr 2:3; 8:3; Ne 7:8
  20. ^ Ezr 2:8; Ne 7:13
  21. ^ Ne 3:11
  22. ^ Nu 32:38; Ezr 2:29
  23. ^ 1Ki 11:1-3; Ezr 10:3

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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