Ezra 10:14

12 And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: “Truly we must do as you say!

13 But there are many people here, and it is the rainy season. We are not able to stay out in the open. Nor is this the work of one or two days, for we have transgressed greatly in this matter.

Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

15 (Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, opposed this plan.)

16 So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation,

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”
KJV
Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
WEB
Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”
ASV
Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all them that are in our cities that have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter be despatched.
DARBY
Let now our princes, while this matter is going on, stand for all the congregation, and let all those that have taken foreign wives in our cities come at the appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce anger of our God be turned from us.
BLB
Please let the leaders of all the assembly stand, and all who [are] in our cities, who have settled foreign wives, [and] come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each of their cities, until the turning back of the fury of the wrath of our God from us even in this matter.”
ÅB
La derfor våre høvdinger stå fram for hele folket, og la alle dem i våre byer som har tatt fremmede kvinner til hustruer, møte til fastsatte tider sammen med de eldste og dommerne i hver by, til vi får vendt vår Guds brennende vrede bort fra oss, og denne sak er avgjort.
OTB
La våre ledere handle på vegne av hele forsamlingen, og la alle i våre byer som har giftet seg med en utenlandsk kvinne komme på fastsatte tider, sammen med de eldste og dommerne i hver by, inntil vår Guds brennende vrede i denne saken er vendt bort fra oss."
B1930
La derfor våre høvdinger stå frem for hele folket, og la alle dem i våre byer som har tatt fremmede kvinner til hustruer, møte til fastsatte tider sammen med de eldste og dommerne i hver by, til vi får vendt vår Guds brennende vrede bort fra oss, og denne sak er avgjort.

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Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 2 Chronicles 30:8

    Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.

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  • 2 Chronicles 29:10

    Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, so that His fierce anger will turn away from us.

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  • Numbers 25:4

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”

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  • Isaiah 12:1

    In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

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  • Deuteronomy 13:17

    Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,

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  • Psalms 78:38

    And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

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  • Deuteronomy 17:18–19

    When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.

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  • Joshua 7:26

    And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.

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