Ezra 10:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

According to the counsel

2 Chronicles 30:12

Of those that

Ezekiel 9:4

At the commandment

Deuteronomy 7:2

Joshua 23:12

Let it

Nehemiah 8:14

Nehemiah 13:1

Isaiah 8:20

General references

1 Corinthians 12:21

Bible References

Let us make

Thus they came unto Joshua to the camp at Gilgal and said unto him and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country; now, therefore, make ye a covenant with us.

Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD's people; and likewise between the king and the people.

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and that they would keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and with all their soul to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

And because of all this, we make a sure covenant and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests seal unto it.

Strengthened with their brethren, their nobles, they came forward in an oath with a curse that they would walk in God's law, which was given by the hand of Moses, the slave of God, and observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

According to the counsel

Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, according to the word of the LORD.

Of those that

Then each one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of the transgression of those that had been carried away were assembled unto me; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.

Go, enquire of the LORD for me and for the remnant of Israel and of Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found, for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according to all the things that are written in this book.

I considered my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

For all these things my hand has made, by my hand has these things been, said the LORD; but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembles at my word.

and the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry out because of all the abominations that are done in the midst of her.

At the commandment

and when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them nor show mercy unto them.

Because if ye do in any wise go back and cleave unto the remnant of these Gentiles that remain among you and shall make marriages with them and go in unto them and they to you,

Let it

And they found written in the law, which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the sons of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month

On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and it was found written therein that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come into the congregation of God forever

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

General references

And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.