6Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.
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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