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Ezra 10:44 Cross-References
Explore 4 cross-references for Ezra 10:44 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Ezra chapter 10 verse 44 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.”
Ezra 10:44 (KJV)
Commentary on Ezra 10:44
All these had taken strange wives—כָּל־אֵלֶּה נָשְׂאוּ נָשִׁים נָכְרִיּוֹת (kol-eleh nasu nashim nokriyyot, all these had taken/married foreign/strange women). The נָשָׂא (take/marry) is the same verb used in marriage formulae throughout the OT (Genesis 4:19, 6:2, 11:29). The נָכְרִיּוֹת (foreign women) doesn't merely indicate ethnicity but religious affiliation—women who worshiped other gods, making marriages theological compromise, not mere cultural diversity. Deuteronomy 7:3-4 explicitly forbade such marriages because 'they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods.'And...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Ezra 10:44
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“and such as are born of them”
“my son”
“even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;”