And they all swore a solemn oath. Ezra selected leaders to represent their families, designating each of the representatives by name. Those who failed to come within three days would, if the leaders and elders so decided, forfeit all their property and be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.Within three days, all the people of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem. This day was December 29, 458 of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. 10 This was because Ezra had determined to study and obey the Law of the Lord and to teach those decrees and regulations to the people of Israel. They were trembling both because of the seriousness of the matter and because it was raining. He spent the night there without eating or drinking anything.

Let everyone who has a pagan wife come at a scheduled time, accompanied by the leaders and judges of his city, so that the fierce anger of our God concerning this affair may be turned away from us.”Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah opposed this course of action, and they were supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite.So this was the plan they followed. On December 29, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. Then Ezra the priest stood and said to them: “You have committed a terrible sin. But in spite of this there is hope for Israel. They are our only historical sources for that period; and if in them we have, as we seem to have, authentic memoirs, fragmentary though they be, written by the two men who, more than any other, gave permanent shape and direction to Judaism, then Nehemiah 1:4 When I heard this, I sat down and wept.

6 Then Ezra left the front of the Temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib.

Ezra 10 New Living Translation << Ezra 9 | Ezra 10 | Nehemiah 1 >> Foreign Wives and Children Put Away.

10:1 There assembled - The account of his grief, and publick expressions thereof in the court before the temple, being in an instant dispersed over all the city, brought a great company together.

And this is the rainy season, so we cannot stay out here much longer.

He was still in mourning because of the unfaithfulness of the returned exiles.Then a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should come to Jerusalem.

Ezra 7:10 New Living Translation (NLT). He was still in mourning because of the unfaithfulness of the returned exiles.

And they all swore a solemn oath. , the God of your ancestors, and do what he demands. Get up, for it is your duty to tell us how to proceed in setting things straight. See what an happy influence the example of great ones may have upon their inferiors!Some of the most complicated problems in Hebrew history as well as in the literary criticism of the Old Testament gather about the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. He spent the night # 10:6 As in parallel text at 1 Esdras 9:2; Hebrew reads He went. Bible > NLT > Ezra 10 Ezra 10 New Living Translation: Par The People Confess Their Sin.

5 So Ezra stood up and demanded that the leaders of the priests and the Levites and all the people of Israel swear that they would do as Shecaniah had said. Let it be done according to the Law of God. This day was December 19, 458 and all the people were sitting in the square before the Temple of God. Holy Bible, New Living Translation copyright 1996, 2004, 2007, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation.

Ezra 10 New Living Translation (NLT) The People Confess Their Sin.

We will follow the advice given by you and by the others who respect the commands of our God. Then Ezra left the front of the Temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, a descendant of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God, for we have married these pagan women of the land. Let us now make a covenant with our God to divorce our pagan wives and to send them away with their children.

He spent the night there without eating or drinking anything.