Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version All these had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives. New Living Translation Each of these men had a pagan wife, and some even had children by these wives. English Standard Version All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children. Berean Standard Bible All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives. King James Bible All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children. New King James Version All these had taken pagan wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children. New American Standard Bible All of these men had married foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children. NASB 1995 All these had married foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children. NASB 1977 All these had married foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children. Legacy Standard Bible All these had taken up foreign women as wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children. Amplified Bible All these had married foreign women, and some of them had wives by whom they had children. Christian Standard Bible All of these had married foreign women, and some of the wives had given birth to children. Holman Christian Standard Bible All of these had married foreign women, and some of the wives had given birth to children. American Standard Version All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children. Contemporary English Version These men divorced their foreign wives, then sent them and their children away. English Revised Version All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children. GOD'S WORD® Translation All of these men had married foreign women. Some of these women had given birth to children. Good News Translation All these men had foreign wives. They divorced them and sent them and their children away. International Standard Version All of these had married foreign wives, and some of them had children by them. Majority Standard Bible All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives. NET Bible All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women. New Heart English Bible All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children. Webster's Bible Translation All these had taken foreign wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children. World English Bible All these had taken foreign wives. Some of them had wives by whom they had children. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionall these have taken strange women, and there are of them women who adopt sons. Young's Literal Translation all these have taken strange women, and there are of them women -- who adopt sons. Smith's Literal Translation All these took strange wives: and there is from them wives, and sons will be produced. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAll these had taken strange wives, and there were among them women that had borne children. Catholic Public Domain Version All these had taken foreign wives, and there were among them women who had borne sons. New American Bible All these had taken foreign wives; but they sent them away, both the women and their children. New Revised Standard Version All these had married foreign women, and they sent them away with their children. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAll these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated All of these took foreign wives, but there were some of the men who begot children. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children. Brenton Septuagint Translation All these had taken strange wives, and had begotten sons of them. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Those Guilty of Intermarriage…43And from the descendants of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah. 44All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives. Cross References Nehemiah 13:23-27 In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. / Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah. / I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves! ... Deuteronomy 7:3-4 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, / because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you. Malachi 2:11-12 Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god. / As for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who is awake and aware—even if he brings an offering to the LORD of Hosts. 1 Kings 11:1-2 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. / These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love. Exodus 34:15-16 Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices. / And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same. 2 Corinthians 6:14-17 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? / What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? / What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” ... 1 Corinthians 7:12-15 To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. / And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. / For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. ... Judges 3:5-6 Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. / And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods. 1 Kings 16:31 And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal. 2 Kings 17:33-34 They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away. / To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel. 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. / I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. / But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. Matthew 19:3-9 Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” / Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ / and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? ... 2 Chronicles 21:6 And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD. 2 Chronicles 19:2 Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you. 2 Chronicles 36:14 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem. Treasury of Scripture All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children. strange wives Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; Proverbs 5:3,20 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: … Jump to Previous Adopt Children Foreign Married Offspring Strange Wives WomenJump to Next Adopt Children Foreign Married Offspring Strange Wives WomenEzra 10 1. Ezra encouraged to reform the strange marriages6. Ezra assembles the people 9. The people repent, and promise amendment 15. The care to perform it 18. The names of them which had married strange wives All these men This phrase refers to the Israelites who had returned from exile and were part of the community that had been reestablished in Jerusalem. Historically, these men were part of the remnant that had been tasked with rebuilding the temple and restoring the worship of Yahweh. The Hebrew root for "men" here is "אִישׁ" (ish), which can denote not just males but also individuals of significance or responsibility. This highlights the gravity of their actions, as these were not just any men, but those who were expected to lead by example in the covenant community. had married foreign women and some of them had children by these wives
Hebrew Allכָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every these [men] אֵ֕לֶּה (’êl·leh) Pronoun - common plural Strong's 428: These, those had married נָשְׂא֖וּ (nā·śə·’ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take foreign נָכְרִיּ֑וֹת (nā·ḵə·rî·yō·wṯ) Adjective - feminine plural Strong's 5237: Foreign, alien women, נָשִׁ֣ים (nā·šîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female and [some] of them מֵהֶ֣ם (mê·hem) Preposition-m | Pronoun - third person masculine plural Strong's 1992: They had וַיָּשִׂ֖ימוּ (way·yā·śî·mū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set children בָּנִֽים׃ (bā·nîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1121: A son by these wives. נָשִׁ֔ים (nā·šîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female Links Ezra 10:44 NIVEzra 10:44 NLT Ezra 10:44 ESV Ezra 10:44 NASB Ezra 10:44 KJV Ezra 10:44 BibleApps.com Ezra 10:44 Biblia Paralela Ezra 10:44 Chinese Bible Ezra 10:44 French Bible Ezra 10:44 Catholic Bible OT History: Ezra 10:44 All these had taken foreign wives (Ezr. Ez) |
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