12Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
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For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Now 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. …
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-14)We have here an account of the proceedings upon the resolutions lately taken up concerning the strange wives; no time was lost; they struck when the iron was hot, and soon set the wheels of reformation a-going. 1. Ezra went to the council-chamber where, it is probable, the priests used to meet upon public business; and till he came thither (so bishop Patrick thinks it should be read), till he saw…
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