Introduction
The people are greatly afflicted by Ezra's prayer, Ezra 10:1 . Shechaniah proposes that all who have taken strange wives should put them away, and the children they had by them; and make a covenant to serve God, Ezra 10:2-4 . Ezra is encouraged; and make a proclamation to collect the people, to find who had transgressed, Ezra 10:5-8 . They come together on the twentieth day of the ninth month, Ezra 10:9 . Ezra exhorts them to put away their strange wives, Ezra 10:10 . The people agree to it, and require time, Ezra 10:11-14 . This being granted, the business is completed by the first of the first month, Ezra 10:15-17 . Some of the priests had taken strange wives; their names, and the names of all who were in the same trespass, vv. 18-44.
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