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

They came to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, "We have come from a distant land. Make a treaty with us."

Jehoiada then drew up a covenant between the Lord and the king and people, stipulating that they should be loyal to the Lord.

Now I intend to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.

The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, by carrying out the terms of this covenant recorded on this scroll.

"Because of all of this we are entering into a binding covenant in written form; our leaders, our Levites, and our priests have affixed their names on the sealed document."

hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders and enter into a curse and an oath to adhere to the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, along with his ordinances and his statutes.

According to the counsel

In Judah God moved the people to unite and carry out the edict the king and the officers had issued at the Lord's command.

Of those that

Everyone who held the words of the God of Israel in awe gathered around me because of the unfaithful acts of the people of the exile. Devastated, I continued to sit there until the evening offering.

"Go, seek an oracle from the Lord for me and those who remain in Israel and Judah. Find out about the words of this scroll that has been discovered. For the Lord's fury has been ignited against us, because our ancestors have not obeyed the word of the Lord by doing all that this scroll instructs!"

I consider my actions and follow your rules.

My hand made them; that is how they came to be," says the Lord. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.

The Lord said to him, "Go through the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it."

At the commandment

and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!

But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,

Let it

They discovered written in the law that the LORD had commanded through Moses that the Israelites should live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month,

On that day the book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people. They found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite may ever enter the assembly of God,

Then you must recall the Lord's instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.

General references

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I do not need you," nor in turn can the head say to the foot, "I do not need you."