Ezra 9:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

And we were warned not to let our daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters. Your prophets also told us never to help those foreigners or even let them live in peace. You wanted us to become strong and to enjoy the good things in the land, then some day to leave it to our children for ever.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:8

My friends, you are the LORD's people. And now, with God as your witness, I want you to promise that you will do your best to obey everything the LORD God has commanded us. Then this land will always belong to you and your descendants.

2 Chronicles 19:2

But the prophet Jehu son of Hanani met him and said: By helping that wicked Ahab, you have made friends with someone who hates the LORD. Now the LORD God is angry with you!

Ezra 9:2

Some Israelite men have married foreign women and have let their sons do the same thing. Our own officials and leaders were the first to commit this disgusting sin, and now God's holy people are mixed with foreigners.

Exodus 23:32

But you must not make any agreements with them or with their gods.

Proverbs 13:22

If you obey God, you will have something to leave your grandchildren. If you don't obey God, those who live right will get what you leave.

Proverbs 20:7

Good people live right, and God blesses the children who follow their example.

Isaiah 1:19

If you willingly obey me, the best crops in the land will be yours.

Deuteronomy 23:6

Don't even think of signing a peace treaty with Moab or Ammon.

Deuteronomy 23:7

But Edomites are your relatives, and you lived as foreigners in the country of Egypt. Now you must be kind to Edomites and Egyptians

Deuteronomy 7:3

and don't let your sons and daughters marry any of them.