Ezra 10:12

And the entire multitude responded, and they said with a great voice: “In accord with your word to us, so let be it done.

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In The King James Version

Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.

In Context

11And now, make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do what pleases him, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from your foreign wives.”

13Yet truly, since the people are many, and it is the time of rain, and we cannot endure standing outside, and this is not a task for one or two days, (for certainly we have sinned greatly in this matter,)

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Cross References

Nehemiah 13:23But also in those days, I saw some Jews taking wives from the Ashdodites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites.

Matthew Henry on Ezra 10:7-15

6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away. 7 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem; 8 And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the… Read the whole commentary →

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