Ezra 10:3
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"So now let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law. (NASB ©1995)

Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.

Deuteronomy 7:3 "Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.

2 Chronicles 34:31 Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant written in this book.

Ezra 9:4 Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel on account of the unfaithfulness of the exiles gathered to me, and I sat appalled until the evening offering.

Ezra 10:44 All these had married foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children. (NASB ©1995)


Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

let us make. Nichrath berith, 'let us cut a covenant:' see on De 29:12 Jos 9:6 2Ki 11:17 2Ch 29:10 34:31,32 Ne 9:38 10:29

put away. Heb. bring forth. according to the counsel 2Ch 30:12

of those that 9:4 2Ch 34:21,27 Ps 119:59,120 Isa 66:2 Eze 9:4

at the commandment De 7:2,3 Jos 23:12,13

let it Ne 8:14 13:1-3 Isa 8:20 (Shechaniah's counsel, which he was then so clear in, will not hold now: such marriages, it is certain, are contrary to the will of God, and ought not to be made; but they are not null. Our rule under the gospel is Quod fieri non debuit, factum valet, 'That which ought not to have been done must, when done, abide.') See 1Co 7:12,13

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