2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 199
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R E S T O R A T I O N
CHAPTER 9:
3 Ezra assembles all the people. 10 They
promise to put away the strange wives. 20
The names and number of them that did so.
40 The Law of Moses is read and declared
before all the people. 49 They weep, and are
put in mind of the Feast day.
The Expulsion of Foreign
Wives
Utterly
destroyed,
Josh.10:8.
All Yahudea
returned.
1 Then Ezra rising from the
court of the Temple, went to
the chamber of Yehohanan
son of Eliashib,
2 And remained there, and
did eat no meat nor drink
water, mourning for the great
iniquities of the multitude.
3 And there was a
proclamation in all Yahudea
and Yerusalem, to all them
that were of the captivity,
that they should be gathered
together at Yerusalem:
4 And that whosoever met
not there within two or three
days according as the Elders
that bare rule, appointed,
their cattle should be seized
to the use of the Temple, and
himself cast out from them
that were of the captivity.
5 And in three days were
all they of the tribe of
Yahudah and Benyamin
gathered
together
at
Yerusalem the twentieth day
of the ninth month.
6 And all the multitude sat
O F
T H E
L A W
trembling in the broad court
of the Temple, because of the
present foul weather.
7 So Ezra arose up, and
said unto them, You have
transgressed the law in
marrying
strange
wives,
thereby to increase the sins of
Israel.
8 And now by confessing give
glory unto Yahuah Elohim of
our fathers,
9 And do his will, and separate
yourselves from the heathen
of the land, and from the
strange women.
10 Then the whole multitude
cried, and said with a loud
voice; Like as you have spoken,
so will we do.
11 But forasmuch as the
people are many, and it is foul
weather, so that we cannot
stand without, and this is not
a work of a day or two, seeing
our sin in these things is spread
far:
12 Therefore let the rulers of
the multitude stay, and let all
them of our habitations that
have strange wives, come at
Or, stand.
the time appointed,
13 And with them the Rulers
and Judges of every place,
til we turn away the wrath
of Yahuah from us, for this
matter.
14 Then Yonathan the son
of Asahel and Yahzeiah son
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