Ezra 10:44
All these had taken foreign wives, and there were among them women who had borne sons.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
In Context
43From the sons of Nebo, Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, and Joel, and Benaiah.
Cross References
Ezra 10:3let us strike a pact with the Lord our God, so that we may cast aside all the wives, and those who have been born from them, in accord with the will of the Lord, and of those who fear the precept of the Lord our God. So let it be done, according to the law.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil.
Matthew Henry on Ezra 10:16-44
15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. 16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. 17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month. 18… Read the whole commentary →