Ezra 10:44
All these had taken strange wives, and had begotten sons of them.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
In Context
43Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, and Joel, and Benaiah.
Cross References
Ezra 10:3Now then let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and their offspring, as thou shalt advise:
Proverbs 5:3For honey drops from the lips of a harlot, 1 Who for a season pleases thy palate: 1
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 →