Ezra 10 — GNV
10Verse 1Whiles Ezra prayed thus, and confessed himselfe weeping, and falling downe before the house of God, there assembled vnto him of Israel a very great Congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept with a great lamentation.Verse 2Then Shechaniah the sonne of Iehiel one of the sonnes of Elam answered, and sayd to Ezra, We haue trespassed against our God, and haue taken strange wiues of the people of the land, yet nowe there is hope in Israel concerning this.Verse 3Now therfore let vs make a couenant with our God, to put away all the wiues (and such as are borne of them) according to the counsell of the Lord, and of those that feare the commandements of our God, and let it be done according to the Lawe.Verse 4Arise: for the matter belogeth vnto thee: we also wil be with thee: be of comfort and do it.Verse 5Then arose Ezra, and caused the chiefe Priestes, the Leuites, and all Israel, to sweare that they would doe according to this worde. So they sware.Verse 6And Ezra rose vp from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Iohanan the sonne of Eliashib: he went euen thither, but he did eate neither bread, nor drunke water: for he mourned, because of the transgression of them of the captiuitie.Verse 7And they caused a proclamation to goe throughout Iudah and Ierusalem, vnto all them of the captiuitie, that they should assemble themselues vnto Ierusalem.Verse 8And whosoeuer woulde not come within three dayes according to the counsel of the Princes and Elders, all his substance should be forfait, and he should be separate from the Congregation of them of the captiuitie.Verse 9Then all the men of Iudah and Beniamin assembled theselues vnto Ierusalem within three dayes, which was the twentieth day of the ninth moneth, and all the people sate in the streete of the house of God, trembling for this matter, and for the raine.Verse 10And Ezra the Priest stoode vp, and said vnto them, Ye haue transgressed, and haue taken strange wiues, to increase the trespasse of Israel.Verse 11Now therefore giue praise vnto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will, and separate your selues from the people of the land, and from the strange wiues.Verse 12And all the Congregation answered, and sayd with a loude voyce, So will we do according to thy wordes vnto vs.Verse 13But the people are many, and it is a raynie weather, and we are not able to stande without, neither is it the worke of one day or two: for we are many that haue offended in this thing.Verse 14Let our rulers stand therefore before all the Congregation, and let all them which haue taken strange wiues in our cities, come at the time appoynted, and with them the Elders of euery citie and the Iudges thereof, til the fierce wrath of our God for this matter turne away from vs.Verse 15Then were appoynted Ionathan the sonne of Asah-el, and Iahaziah the sonne of Tikuah ouer this matter, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Leuites helped them.Verse 16And they of the captiuitie did so, and departed, euen Ezra the Priest, and the men that were chiefe fathers to the familie of their fathers by name, and sate downe in the first day of the tenth moneth to examine the matter.Verse 17And vntill the first day of the first moneth they were finishing the businesse with al the men that had taken strange wiues.Verse 18And of the sonnes of the Priests there were men founde, that had taken strange wiues, to wit, of the sonnes of Ieshua, the sonne of Iozadak, and of his brethren, Maaseiah, Aeliezer, and Iarib and Gedaliah.Verse 19And they gaue their hads, that they would put away their wiues, and they that had trespassed, gaue a ramme for their trespasse.Verse 20And of the sonnes of Immer, Honani, and Zebadiah.Verse 21And of the sonnes of Harim, Maaseiah, and Eliiah, and Shemaiah, and Iehiel, and Vzziah.Verse 22And of ye sonnes of Pashur, Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Iozabad, and Elasah.Verse 23And of the Leuites, Iozabad and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (which is Kelitah) Pethahiah, Iudah and Eliezer.Verse 24And of the singers, Eliashib. And of the porters, Shallum, and Telem, and Vri.Verse 25And of Israel: of the sonnes of Parosh, Ramiah, and Iesiah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchiiah, and Benaiah.Verse 26And of the sonnes of Elam, Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Iehiel, and Abdi, and Ieremoth, and Eliah.Verse 27And of the sonnes of Zattu, Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Ierimoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.Verse 28And of the sonnes of Bebai, Iehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.Verse 29And of the sonnes of Bani, Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Iashub, and Sheal, Ieramoth.Verse 30And of the sonnes of Pahath Moab, Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.Verse 31And of the sonnes of Harim, Eliezer, Ishiiah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,Verse 32Beniamin, Malluch, Shamariah.Verse 33Of the sonnes of Hashum, Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Ieremai, Manasseh, Shimei.Verse 34Of the sonnes of Bani, Maadai, Amram, and Vel,Verse 35Banaiah, Bediah, Chelluh,Verse 36Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,Verse 37Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Iaasau,Verse 38And Banni, and Bennui, Shimei,Verse 39And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,Verse 40Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,Verse 41Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,Verse 42Shallum, Amariah, Ioseph.Verse 43Of the sonnes of Nebo, Ieiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iadau, and Ioel, Benaiah.Verse 44All these had taken strange wiues: and among them were women that had children.