1While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly.a
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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