Ezra 10:11
Now you must confess your sin to the Lord, the God of your forefathers, and do what he requires. Sever your connections with the people of the land and your foreign wives.”
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In Context
12The whole assembly answered in a loud voice: “We agree, and we promise to do as you say!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:3Don't intermarry with them. Don't let your daughters marry their sons or have their daughters marry your sons,
Ezra 9:1Some time later after all this had happened, the leaders came and told me, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the people around us whose disgusting religious practices are similar to those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
Nehemiah 9:2Those of Israelite ancestry separated themselves from the foreigners, and stood to confess their sins and those of their forefathers.
Psalms 32:5Then I confessed my sins to you. I did not hide the wrongs I had done. I said to myself, “I will confess my disobedience to the Lord,” and you forgave the guilt of my sins. Selah.
Isaiah 1:16Wash yourselves and clean yourselves up. Get rid of your sins—I don't want to see them! Stop doing evil!
Jeremiah 3:13Just admit you did wrong, that you rebelled against the Lord your God. You spread yourself around, committing adultery by worshiping foreign gods under every green tree, refusing to do what I told you, declares the Lord.
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 →