WEBVTT

00:00.000 --> 00:05.380
Chapter 10 Now when Ezra had prayed,
and when he had confessed, weeping and

00:05.380 --> 00:09.600
casting himself down before the house of
God, there assembled unto him out of

00:09.600 --> 00:12.780
Israel a very great congregation of men
and women and children.

00:13.540 --> 00:15.040
For the people wept very sore.

00:15.840 --> 00:20.220
And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel,
one of the sons of Elam, answered and said

00:20.220 --> 00:24.860
unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our
God and have taken strange wives of the

00:24.860 --> 00:25.680
people of the land.

00:26.140 --> 00:28.920
Yet now there is hope in Israel concerning
this thing.

00:29.520 --> 00:34.640
Now therefore let us make a covenant with
our God to put away all the wives and such

00:34.640 --> 00:38.780
as are born of them, according to the
counsel of my Lord and of those that

00:38.780 --> 00:43.260
tremble at the commandment of our God,
and let it be done according to the law.

00:44.140 --> 00:46.580
Arise, for this matter belongeth unto
thee.

00:46.920 --> 00:48.380
We also will be with thee.

00:48.940 --> 00:50.540
Be of good courage and do it.

00:51.020 --> 00:54.680
Then arose Ezra and made the chief
priests, the Levites and all Israel,

00:54.980 --> 00:57.020
to swear that they should do according to
this word.

00:57.020 --> 00:58.320
And they swore.

00:58.960 --> 01:03.020
Then Ezra arose up from before the house
of God and went into the chamber of

01:03.020 --> 01:04.720
Johanan, the son of Elisha.

01:05.500 --> 01:09.940
And when he came thither, he did eat no
bread nor drink water, for he mourned

01:09.940 --> 01:12.380
because of the transgression of them that
had been carried away.

01:12.780 --> 01:16.580
And they made proclamation throughout
Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children

01:16.580 --> 01:20.960
of the captivity that they should gather
themselves together unto Jerusalem and

01:20.960 --> 01:24.780
that whosoever would not come within three
days, according to the counsel of the

01:24.780 --> 01:29.980
princes and the elders, all his substance
should be forfeited and himself separated

01:29.980 --> 01:32.420
from the congregation of those that had
been carried away.

01:33.440 --> 01:37.300
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin
gathered themselves together unto

01:37.300 --> 01:38.800
Jerusalem within three days.

01:39.400 --> 01:43.480
It was the ninth month on the twentieth
day of the month, and all the people sat

01:43.480 --> 01:47.440
in the street of the house of God,
trembling because of this matter and for

01:47.440 --> 01:48.140
the great rain.

01:48.940 --> 01:54.140
And Ezra the priest stood up and said unto
them, Ye have transgressed and have taken

01:54.140 --> 01:56.700
strange wives to increase the trespass of
Israel.

01:57.380 --> 02:02.180
Now therefore make confession unto the
Lord God of your fathers and do his

02:02.180 --> 02:07.340
pleasure, and separate yourselves from the
people of the land and from the strange

02:07.340 --> 02:07.820
wives.

02:08.240 --> 02:12.580
Then all the congregation answered and
said with a loud voice, As thou hast said,

02:12.700 --> 02:13.780
so must we do.

02:14.260 --> 02:19.360
But the people are many, and it is a time
of much rain, and we are not able to stand

02:19.360 --> 02:25.040
without, neither is this a work of one day
or two, for we are many that have

02:25.040 --> 02:26.460
transgressed in this thing.

02:27.120 --> 02:32.440
Let now our rulers of all the congregation
stand, and let all them which have taken

02:32.440 --> 02:37.880
strange wives in our cities come at
appointed times, and with them the elders

02:37.880 --> 02:43.060
of every city and the judges thereof,
until the fierce wrath of our God for this

02:43.060 --> 02:44.620
matter be turned from us.

02:44.920 --> 02:49.380
Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and
Jehoziah the son of Tikva were employed

02:49.380 --> 02:53.080
about this matter, and Meshulam and
Shabbatai the Levite helped them,

02:53.580 --> 02:55.480
and the children of the captivity did so.

02:56.240 --> 03:00.120
And Ezra the priest was certain chief of
the fathers after the house of their

03:00.120 --> 03:04.800
fathers, and all of them by their names
were separated and sat down in the first

03:04.800 --> 03:07.000
day of the tenth month to examine the
matter.

03:07.700 --> 03:11.600
And they made an end with all the men that
had taken strange wives by the first day

03:11.600 --> 03:12.400
of the first month.

03:13.240 --> 03:16.840
And among the sons of the priests there
were found that had taken strange wives,

03:17.300 --> 03:21.900
namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of
Josedach and his brethren, Maaseah,

03:22.260 --> 03:24.860
and Eliezer, and Jerib, and Gedaliah.

03:25.560 --> 03:29.560
And they gave their hands that they would
put away their wives, and being guilty,

03:29.980 --> 03:32.060
they offered a ram of the flock for their
trespass.

03:32.840 --> 03:37.920
And of the sons of Emma, and Anani,
and Zebediah, and of the sons of Herim,

03:38.380 --> 03:44.160
Maaseah, and Elijah, and Shimeah,
and Shechael, and Uzziah, and of the sons

03:44.160 --> 03:51.160
of Pashur, Elioinai, Maaseah, Ishmael,
Nathanael, Josabath, and Elassah,

03:51.740 --> 03:57.160
also of the Levites, Josabath,
and Shimei, and Keliah, the same as

03:57.160 --> 04:03.260
Kelitah, Petahiah, Judah, and Eliezer,
of the singers also, Eliashub,

04:03.780 --> 04:06.800
and of the porters, Shalom, and Telim,
and Uri.

04:07.560 --> 04:13.360
Moreover of Israel, of the sons of Perosh,
Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malachiah,

04:13.600 --> 04:19.220
and Miamin, and Eliezer, and Melchijah,
and Benaiah, and of the sons of Elam,

04:19.720 --> 04:25.360
Mataniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel,
and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah,

04:25.980 --> 04:31.620
and of the sons of Zatu, Elioinai,
Eliashub, Mataniah, and Jeremoth,

04:32.000 --> 04:38.880
and Zebad, and Aziza, of the sons also of
Bibai, Jehohanan, Ananiah, Zabai,

04:39.320 --> 04:45.540
and Athlai, and of the sons of Benai,
Meshulam, Malak, and Adaiah, Jeshub,

04:45.760 --> 04:51.880
and Sheol, and Ramoth, and of the sons of
Peiathmoab, Adna, and Kelo, Baneah,

04:52.400 --> 04:58.560
Measiah, Mataniah, Bezaliel, and Binuai,
and Manasseh, and of the sons of Herim,

04:59.240 --> 05:05.960
Eliezer, Ishijah, Malkiah, Shimeah,
Shimeon, Benjamin, Malak, and Shemariah,

05:05.960 --> 05:13.360
of the sons of Hesham, Matanai,
Matathah, Zebad, Eliphelet, Jeremiah,

05:14.140 --> 05:20.640
Manasseh, and Shimei, of the sons of
Benai, Meadai, Amram, and Yul,

05:21.180 --> 05:29.400
Baneah, Bedeah, Kela, Vanaiah,
Merimoth, Eliashub, Mataniah, Matanai,

05:29.960 --> 05:36.140
and Jehoshor, and Benai, and Binuai,
Shimei, and Shelemiah, and Nathan,

05:36.840 --> 05:42.820
and Adaiah, Machnadabai, Sheshai,
Sherai, Azariel, and Shelemiah,

05:43.340 --> 05:50.420
Shemariah, Shalom, Amariah, and Joseph,
of the sons of Nebo, Jeiel, Mattithiah,

05:51.060 --> 05:55.260
Zebad, Zebina, Jeduel, and Joel,
Baneah.

05:55.840 --> 06:00.300
All these had taken strange wives,
and some of them had wives by whom they

06:00.300 --> 06:00.760
had children.