Ezra 9:1

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Summary

Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

The princes

Ezra 10:8

Jeremiah 26:10

Have not separated

Doing according

Of the canaanites

Genesis 15:16

Exodus 23:23

Deuteronomy 20:17

Ammonites

Moabites

Numbers 25:1

General references

Deuteronomy 7:3

Nehemiah 10:30

Bible References

The princes

And that if anyone did not come before three days were past, as ordered by the rulers and the responsible men, all his goods would be put under the curse, and he himself would be cut off from the meeting of the people who had come back.

And the rulers of Judah, hearing of these things, came up from the king's house to the house of the Lord, and took their seats by the new door of the Lord's house.

Have not separated

And the children of Israel, who had come back, and all those who were joined to them, after separating themselves from the evil ways of the people of the land to become the servants of the Lord, the God of Israel, took food together,

And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.

For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth?

From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.

And the seed of Israel made themselves separate from all the men of other nations, publicly requesting forgiveness for their sins and the wrongdoing of their fathers.

So after hearing the law, they took out of Israel all the mixed people.

Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.

Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

Doing according

You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.

After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

But they were joined to the nations, learning their works.

But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,

Of the canaanites

And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.

And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand.

Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:

Ammonites

No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people:

Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down.

On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and they saw that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God;

Moabites

Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

General references

Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

And that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons;