Ezra 10:44
All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
In Context
43And from the descendants of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah.
Cross References
Ezra 10:3So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.
Proverbs 5:3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech 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 →