6Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and [when] he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.
Ezra 10 records the painful but necessary resolution to the crisis of mixed marriages among the returned exiles. Confronted by Ezra's grief and prayer, the people confess their sin and covenant to put away their foreign wives and children. The chapter moves from corporate weeping
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