Ezra 10:5

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Summary

Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.

Arose

Proverbs 27:9

Made

Matthew 26:63

General references

Exodus 14:15

Exodus 18:24

1 Corinthians 12:21

Bible References

Arose

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

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

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

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

Oil and perfume make the heart glad,

So a man’s counsel is sweet to his friend.

Made

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.

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.

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;

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.

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.”

General references

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward.

So Moses listened to his father-in-law and did all that he had said.

And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”