Ezra 10:44

New International Reader's Version

All these men had married women from other lands. Some of them had even had children by those wives.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many women besides Pharaoh’s daughter. They were from other lands. They were Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.

Ezra 10:3

So let’s make a covenant in front of our God. Let’s promise to send away all these women and their children. That’s what you have advised us to do. Those who respect our God’s commands have given us the same advice. We want to do what the Law says.

Ezra 9:2

The men of Israel have married the daughters of some of those people. They’ve also taken some of those women for their sons to marry. So they’ve mixed our holy nation with the nations around us. We leaders and officials have also married women who don’t worship the Lord. By doing this, we have led the way in breaking our covenant with the Lord.”

Proverbs 2:16

Wisdom will save you from a woman who commits adultery. It will save you from a sinful woman and her tempting words.

Proverbs 5:20

My son, why be captured by another man’s wife? Why hug a woman who has gone astray?

Proverbs 5:3

A woman who commits adultery has lips that drip honey. What she says is smoother than olive oil.