Ezra 10:2

The People Respond

¹ While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children from Israel gathered to him. And the people wept bitterly. ² Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, "We ourselves have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, and even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this. ³ So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all of these women and their offspring, according to the advice of my lord and those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

People of the Land

Peoples of the Land

Trespassed Against the Lord

We Have Sinned

Elam

Ezra

Israel

Jehiel

Shecaniah

Shechaniah

Nehemiah 13:27

Should we listen to you all and do this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?"

Ezra 9:2

For they have taken from their daughters for themselves and their sons. So the holy seed has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands, and the hand of the officials and prefects were foremost in this sin.

Exodus 34:6-7

And Yahweh passed over before him, and he proclaimed, "Yahweh, Yahweh, God, [who is] compassionate and gracious, {slow to anger}, and abounding with loyal love and faithfulness,

Exodus 34:12

Be careful for yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, lest it be a snare among you.

Ezra 2:7

the descendants of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;

Ezra 10:26

From the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.

Nehemiah 3:29

After them Zadok son of Immer repaired opposite his house. After him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, keeper of the East Gate, repaired.

Nehemiah 7:12

The descendants of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four.

Nehemiah 7:34

The people of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four.

Isaiah 55:6-7

Seek Yahweh {while he lets himself be found}; call him {while he is} near.

Jeremiah 3:12-13

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, apostate Israel,' {declares} Yahweh. 'I will not cause my {anger} to fall on you. For I [am] loyal,' {declares} Yahweh. 'I will not be angry {forever}.

James 2:9

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, [and thus] are convicted by the law as transgressors.

1 John 1:7-9

But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Ezra 2:31

the people of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four;