GOD in the Old Testament - Ezra - Part 8

Ezra 9:10-11  (continued)

            "But now, our God, what can we say after this?

        For we have forsaken the commands you gave 

        through your servants the prophets when you said:

        'The land you are entering to possess is a land

        polluted by the corruption of its peoples. By their

        detestable practices they have filled it with their

        impurity from one end to the other.' "

 

Ezra 9:13  

            "What has happened to us is a result of our evil

        deeds and our great guilt, and yet, our God, you 

        have punished us less than our sins deserved and

        have given us a remnant like this."

 

Ezra 9:15  

        "LORD, the God of Israel, you are righteous! We are

        left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you

        in our guilt, though because of it not one of us can 

        stand in your presence."

(see all Ezra 9)

 

Ezra 10:1  

    While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites--men, women and children--gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.

 

Ezra 10:2-3  

Then Shekaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, said to Ezra, "We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the peoples around us. But in spite of this, there is still hope for Israel. Now let us make a covenant before God to send away all these women and their children, in accordance with the counsel of my lord and of those who fear the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Law."

 

Ezra 10:6  

Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he was there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he continued to mourn over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

 

Ezra 10:9  

    Within three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem. and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people were sitting in the square before the house of God, greatly distressed by the occasion and because of the rain.

 

Ezra 10:11  

"Now honor the LORD, the God of your ancestors, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples around you and from your foreign wives."

 

Ezra 10:14  

"Let our officials act for the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at a set time, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us."

(see all Ezra 10) 

(parentheses are mine) 

 

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