Ezra 10:3

The People Respond

² And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this th ³ 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 who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to ⁴ Arise, for the matter belongs to thee, and we are with thee. Be of good courage, and do it.

According to the Law

Counsel of the Lord

Law of God

Let Us

Make a Covenant

We Will Obey

Ezra

Deuteronomy 7:2-3

and when LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shall smite them, then thou shall utterly destroy them. Thou shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.

Ezra 9:4

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of the trespass of those of the captivity, and I sat confounded until the evening oblation.

Deuteronomy 29:12

that thou may enter into the covenant of LORD thy God, and into his oath, which LORD thy God makes with thee this day,

Joshua 9:6

And they went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country, now therefore make ye a covenant with us.

Joshua 23:12-13

Else if ye do at all go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you,

2 Kings 11:17

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

2 Chronicles 29:10

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

2 Chronicles 30:12

Also the hand of God came upon Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the rulers by the word of LORD.

2 Chronicles 34:21

Go ye, inquire of LORD for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found. For great is the wrath of LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word

2 Chronicles 34:27

because thy heart was tender, and thou humbled thyself before God when thou heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, and have humbled thyself before me, and have torn thy clothes, and wept before me, I

2 Chronicles 34:31-32

And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before LORD, to walk after LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the coven

Ezra 10:44

All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had sons.

Nehemiah 8:14

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

Nehemiah 9:38

And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it, and our rulers, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it.

Nehemiah 10:29-39

they clung to their brothers, their ranking men, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of LORD our Lord, and his or

Nehemiah 13:1-3

On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people, and in it was found written that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,

Psalm 119:59

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies.

Psalm 119:120

My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.

Isaiah 8:20

[Seek] to the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Isaiah 66:2

For all these things my hand has made, and all these things came to be, says LORD. But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Ezekiel 9:4

And LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and who cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.

1 Corinthians 7:12-13

But to the rest I say, not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and this woman consents to dwell with him, he should not leave her.