Ezra 10:4

Arise; for this matter belongs unto you: we also will be with you: be of good courage, and do it.

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.

In Context

3Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

5Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they swore.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:16And they answered Joshua, saying, All that you command us we will do, and anywhere you send us, we will go.

1 Chronicles 22:16Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with you.

1 Chronicles 28:10Take heed now; for the LORD has chosen you to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.

1 Chronicles 28:21And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with you for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with you for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at your commandment.

Ezra 7:25And you, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God, that is in yours hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach all of you them that know them not.

Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go.

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 →

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