Ezra 10:5

The People Respond

⁴ Arise! For this matter is your responsibility, but we will be with you; be courageous and act.” ⁵ Then Ezra rose and made the leading priests, the Levites and all Israel, take oath that they would do according to this proposal; so they took the oath. ⁶ Then Ezra rose from before the house of God and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. Although he went there, he did not eat bread nor drink water, for he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

All Israel

Chief Priest

Chief Priests

People of Israel

Priests and Levites

Take an Oath

Took an Oath

Descendants Of Levi

Ezra

Israel

Levi

Levites

Nehemiah 5:12

Then they said, “We will give it back and will require nothing from them; we will do exactly as you say.” So I called the priests and took an oath from them that they would do according to this promise.

Nehemiah 13:25

So I contended with them and cursed them and struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take of their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

Ezra 10:3

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.

Nehemiah 10:29

are joining with their kinsmen, their nobles, and are taking on themselves a curse and an oath to walk in God’s law, which was given through Moses, God’s servant, and to keep and to observe all the commandments of God our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes;

Proverbs 1:5

A wise man will hear and increase in learning,
And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser,
Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.

Proverbs 15:23

A man has joy in an apt answer,
And how delightful is a timely word!

Proverbs 25:11-12

Like apples of gold in settings of silver
Is a word spoken in right circumstances.

Proverbs 27:9

Oil and perfume make the heart glad,
So a man’s counsel is sweet to his friend.

Matthew 26:63

But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest said to Him, “I adjure You by the living God, that You tell us whether You are the Christ, the Son of God.”