Ezra 10:12

Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “We must do as you have said concerning us.

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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 to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his pleasure. 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 outside. This is not 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 I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

Psalms 78:57but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted 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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