Quotes about Ezra
While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.
- Ezra 10:1
So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.
- Ezra 10:3
So Ezra got up and made the leading priests, Levites, and all Israel take an oath to do what had been said. And they took the oath.
- Ezra 10:5
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
- Ezra 10:6
Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.
- Ezra 10:10
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.
- Ezra 10:13
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,
- Ezra 10:16
and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.
- Ezra 10:17
They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.
- Ezra 10:19
From the singers: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
- Ezra 10:24
Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.
- Ezra 10:32
Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
- Ezra 10:35