Ezra 10:12

Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice: 'As thou hast said, so it is for us to do.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

11Now therefore make confession unto the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.'

13But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 13:23In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

Psalms 78:57But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful 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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