Ezra 10:44
All these had taken strange wiues: and among them were women that had children.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 sonnes of Nebo, Ieiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iadau, and Ioel, Benaiah.
Cross References
Ezra 10:3Now therfore let vs make a couenant with our God, to put away all the wiues (and such as are borne of them) according to the counsell of the Lord, and of those that feare the commandements of our God, and let it be done according to the Lawe.
Proverbs 5:3For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.
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 →