Ezra 10:4

Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.

In Context

3Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law.

5Then Ezra got up, and made the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do this. So they took an oath.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:16Then they said to Joshua in answer, Whatever you say to us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

1 Chronicles 22:16In gold and silver and brass and iron more than may be numbered. Up! then, and to work; and may the Lord be with you.

1 Chronicles 28:10Now then, take note; for the Lord has made selection of you to be the builder of a house for the holy place. Be strong and do it.

1 Chronicles 28:21And see, there are the divisions of the priests and Levites for all the work of the house of God; and every trained and expert workman will be ready to do for you whatever is needed; and the captains and the people will be under your orders in everything.

Ezra 7:25And you, Ezra, by the wisdom of your God which is in you, are to put rulers and judges to have authority over all the people across the river who have knowledge of the laws of your God; and you are to give teaching to him who has no knowledge of them.

Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

Matthew Henry on Ezra 10:2-6

Ezra's Reformation. ( b. c. 456.) 1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore. 2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. 3 Now… Read the whole commentary →

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