Ezra 10:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.

Ezra 10:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 78:37
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Nehemiah 13:23
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Ezra 10:3-4
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. …
Psalms 78:57
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Topics

Ammonites Bill of Divorce Character Church Congregation Decision Divorce Ecclesiasticism

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

9-11. Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin--The returned captives belonged chiefly to these tribes; but other Israelites are also included under these names, as they all were then occupying the territory formerly assigned to those two tribes. It was the ninth month--that is, between the end of December and the beginning of January, which is the coldest and most rainy season of the year in Palest…