Ezra 10:12

And all the Congregation answered, and sayd with a loude voyce, So will we do according to thy wordes vnto vs.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 giue praise vnto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will, and separate your selues from the people of the land, and from the strange wiues.

13But the people are many, and it is a raynie weather, and we are not able to stande without, neither is it the worke of one day or two: for we are many that haue offended in this thing.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 13:23In those dayes also I saw Iewes that married wiues of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab.

Psalms 78:57But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.

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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