Ezra 10:10

Easy To Read Version

Then Ezra the priest stood and said to those people, “You people have not been faithful to God. You have married foreign women. You have made Israel more guilty by doing that.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:13

Those leaders said to the Israelite soldiers, “Don’t bring the prisoners from Judah here. If you do that, it will make us sin worse against the Lord. That will make our sin and guilt worse and the Lord will be very angry against Israel!”

Ezra 10:11

Now, you people must confess to the Lord that you have sinned. The Lord is the God of your ancestors. You must obey the Lord’s command. Separate yourselves from the people living around you and from your foreign wives.”

Ezra 10:9

So, in three days all the men from the families of Judah and Benjamin gathered in Jerusalem. And on the twentieth day of the ninth month, {\cf2\super [58]} all the people met together in the temple yard. They were very upset because of the reason for the meeting and because of the heavy rain.

Ezra 9:14

So we know that we must not break your commands. We must not marry those people. Those people do very bad things. God, if we continue to marry those bad people, we know you will destroy us! Then there would be no person from the people of Israel left alive.

Ezra 9:6

Then I prayed this prayer:

Numbers 32:14

And now you are doing the same thing that your fathers did. You sinful people, do you want the Lord to be even more angry against his people?

Matthew 23:32

And you will finish the sin that your fathers started!