Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version A proclamation was then issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem for all the exiles to assemble in Jerusalem. New Living Translation Then a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should come to Jerusalem. English Standard Version And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem, Berean Standard Bible And a proclamation was issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem. King James Bible And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem; New King James Version And they issued a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the descendants of the captivity, that they must gather at Jerusalem, New American Standard Bible So they made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the exiles, that they were to assemble at Jerusalem, NASB 1995 They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the exiles, that they should assemble at Jerusalem, NASB 1977 And they made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the exiles, that they should assemble at Jerusalem, Legacy Standard Bible And they made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the exiles, that they should gather at Jerusalem, Amplified Bible They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the [former] exiles, that they were to assemble at Jerusalem, Christian Standard Bible They circulated a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem. Holman Christian Standard Bible They circulated a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem. American Standard Version And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem; English Revised Version And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem; GOD'S WORD® Translation Then he sent a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the former exiles must gather in Jerusalem. Good News Translation A message was sent throughout Jerusalem and Judah that all those who had returned from exile were to meet in Jerusalem International Standard Version Then they sent word throughout Judah and Jerusalem to everyone who had returned from the exile, to gather together in Jerusalem. Majority Standard Bible And a proclamation was issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem. NET Bible A proclamation was circulated throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles were to be assembled in Jerusalem. New Heart English Bible They made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the descendants of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem; Webster's Bible Translation And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should assemble at Jerusalem; World English Bible They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem; Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd they cause a voice to pass over into Judah and Jerusalem, to all sons of the expulsion, to be gathered to Jerusalem, Young's Literal Translation And they cause a voice to pass over into Judah and Jerusalem, to all sons of the removal, to be gathered to Jerusalem, Smith's Literal Translation And they caused a voice to pass through Judah and Jerusalem to all the sons of the exile to gather, together at Jerusalem; Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd proclamation was made in Juda and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should assemble together into Jerusalem. Catholic Public Domain Version And a voice was sent into Judah and Jerusalem, to all the sons of the transmigration, so that they would gather together in Jerusalem. New American Bible A proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather together in Jerusalem, New Revised Standard Version They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem, Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd they made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the exiles that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And they read a proclamation in Yehuda and in Jerusalem for all the children of the captivity to be brought near to the city Jerusalem. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem; Brenton Septuagint Translation And they made proclamation throughout Juda and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should assemble at Jerusalem, saying, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The People's Confession of Sin6Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles. 7And a proclamation was issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem. 8Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.… Cross References Nehemiah 9:2 Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. 2 Chronicles 30:5 So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem. For they had not observed it in great numbers as prescribed. Nehemiah 8:15 and that they should proclaim this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.” Nehemiah 13:3 As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent. Leviticus 20:24-26 But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples. / You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you. / You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own. 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. 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 5:9-13 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. ... 1 Peter 2:9-10 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. / Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Deuteronomy 31:12-13 Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law. / Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.” Joshua 23:12-13 For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, / know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you. 2 Kings 23:1-3 Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. / And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD. / So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant. 2 Chronicles 34:29-32 Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. / And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people great and small—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD. / So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant that were written in this book. ... Acts 15:19-20 It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God. / Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood. Romans 12:1-2 Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. / Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Treasury of Scripture And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem; they made Ezra 1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 2 Chronicles 30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written. Jump to Previous Assemble Captivity Cause Children Exiles Gather Gathered Issued Jerusalem Judah Proclamation Public Removal Statement Themselves Throughout Together VoiceJump to Next Assemble Captivity Cause Children Exiles Gather Gathered Issued Jerusalem Judah Proclamation Public Removal Statement Themselves Throughout Together VoiceEzra 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 Then a proclamation was issued The phrase indicates a formal and authoritative announcement. In the Hebrew context, the word for "proclamation" (קול, qôl) often implies a public declaration that demands attention and action. Historically, proclamations were used to communicate important decisions or commands from leaders. This particular proclamation underscores the gravity of the situation and the need for communal response. It reflects the urgency and seriousness with which Ezra and the leaders approached the issue of intermarriage with foreign women, which was seen as a violation of the covenant with God. throughout Judah and Jerusalem for all the exiles to assemble in Jerusalem (8) Forfeited.--This, as also what precedes and what follows, again recalls the express commission of Ezra 7. But "according to the counsel" removes all appearance of arbitrariness on the part of Ezra. (9) Within three days.--From the time of hearing the summons. No town was more than forty miles distant; and of course only those would come that were able, and who came within the scope of the proclamation, the precise terms of which are not given. They were not more than could assemble "in the street," or open court of the Temple. The minute specifications of date, and the two reasons for the trembling of the people, and the whole strain of the narrative, bear witness to the veracity of an eye-witness. It was the ninth month.--Chisleu, our December, the rainy month in Palestine. (10) Ezra the priest.--He stood up, not as the commissioner of Artaxerxes, not at this moment as the scribe, but as the representative of God. (11) Do his pleasure.--This procedure, humanly severe, is connected with the Divine will. From the people of the land, and from the strange wives.--The marriages were but a subordinate branch, though a very important one, of the wider sin: that of confederacy with idolators. (13) We are many.--Better, we have greatly offended in this thing. The greatness of the offence of course implied the number of the offenders. (14) Stand.--As a representative body in session. Until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.--A difficult verse, owing to a slight peculiarity in the original. The meaning seems to be: until the fierce wrath of our God--fierce while this matter lasts--be turned away from us. (15) Were employed about.--Rather, stood against. Nothing is said as to the reason for opposition on the part of these and the two who abetted them. But the reason is obvious enough. Some modern expositors are of their mind, and regard the act of Ezra as remedying one sin by another still greater. They bring Malachi (Ezra 2:15) to their support; but nothing in his prediction about "the wife of thy youth," rightly understood, tends to condemn the conduct here described. . . . Verse 7. - They made proclamation. Literally, "they made to pass a voice" (παρήνεγ καν φωνήν - LXX.). They sent criers to make the matter known. To all the children of the captivity. i.e. to all those who, having returned from the captivity, were now in the land. The expression is a favourite one with Ezra (see Ezra 2:1; Ezra 4:1; Ezra 6:16, 19; Ezra 8:35, etc.).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew And a proclamationק֜וֹל (qō·wl) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6963: A voice, sound was issued וַיַּעֲבִ֨ירוּ (way·ya·‘ă·ḇî·rū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on throughout Judah בִּיהוּדָ֣ה (bî·hū·ḏāh) Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 3063: Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites and Jerusalem וִירֽוּשָׁלִַ֗ם (wî·rū·šā·lim) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 3389: Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel that all לְכֹל֙ (lə·ḵōl) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every the exiles בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 1121: A son should gather לְהִקָּבֵ֖ץ (lə·hiq·qā·ḇêṣ) Preposition-l | Verb - Nifal - Infinitive construct Strong's 6908: To gather, collect at Jerusalem. יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ (yə·rū·šā·lim) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 3389: Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel Links Ezra 10:7 NIVEzra 10:7 NLT Ezra 10:7 ESV Ezra 10:7 NASB Ezra 10:7 KJV Ezra 10:7 BibleApps.com Ezra 10:7 Biblia Paralela Ezra 10:7 Chinese Bible Ezra 10:7 French Bible Ezra 10:7 Catholic Bible OT History: Ezra 10:7 They made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem (Ezr. 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