PepLamb's Audio Bible
Loading God's Word...
Feed My lambs | John 21:15-17

Word-by-wordSyncAudioBible

Try Davar Free
Ezra.9.2

Ezra 9:2

KJV

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

Intermarriage with Neighboring Peoples

Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:14
KJV
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Principles of Marriage

2 Corinthians 6:14
KJV
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Do Not Be Unequally Yoked

Exodus 22:31
KJV GOD
And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

Laws of Social Responsibility

Deuteronomy 7:3
KJV
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

Drive Out the Nations

Deuteronomy 14:2
KJV
For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

Clean and Unclean Animals

Joshua 23:12
KJV
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

Joshua’s Charge to Leaders

Ezra 9:12
KJV GOD
Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

Ezra’s Prayer of Confession

Ezra 9:14
KJV
Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?

Ezra’s Prayer of Confession

Ezra 10:2
KJV
And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

Shecaniah’s Encouragement

Ezra 10:18
KJV
¶ And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

Those Guilty of Intermarriage

Nehemiah 13:3
KJV
Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

Foreigners Excluded

Nehemiah 13:23
KJV
¶ In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

Intermarriage Forbidden

Isaiah 6:13
KJV GOD
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

Isaiah’s Commission

Isaiah’s Commission
Malachi 2:11
KJV
¶ Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

Judah’s Unfaithfulness