Ezra 10:12

And all the multitude answered and said with a loud voice: According to thy word unto us, so be it done.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives.

13But as the people are many, and it is time of rain, and me are not able to stand without, and it is not a work of one day or two, (for we have exceedingly sinned in this matter,)

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Cross References

Nehemiah 13:23In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.

Psalms 78:57And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

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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