Ezra 10:5
Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.
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In Context
4Arise, for the matter belongs to you and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:12Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
Nehemiah 13:25I contended with them, cursed them, struck certain of them, plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
Proverbs 9:9Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 25:11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Matthew 26:63But Jesus stayed silent. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
Matthew Henry on Ezra 10:2-6
Ezra's Reformation. ( b. c. 456.) 1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore. 2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. 3 Now… Read the whole commentary →