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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezra 10:2 Catholic Bible: Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the clan of Elam, said to Ezra, "We have broken faith with God by marrying foreign women, but even so there is still hope for Israel. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/ezra/10-2.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/ezra/10-2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/ezra/10-2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/ezra/1.htm">Ezra</a> > <a href="/gntd/ezra/10.htm">Chapter 10</a> > Verse 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezra/10-1.htm" title="Ezra 10:1">◄</a> Ezra 10:2 <a href="../ezra/10-3.htm" title="Ezra 10:3">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/ezra/10.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/ezra/10.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the clan of Elam, said to Ezra, "We have broken faith with God by marrying foreign women, but even so there is still hope for Israel. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezra/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the descendants of Elam, addressed Ezra, saying, “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/ezra/10.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Shecaniah son of Jehiel from the family of Elam said: Ezra, we have disobeyed God by marrying these foreign women. But there is still hope for the people of Israel, <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezra/10.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Then Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, made this appeal to Ezra: “We have indeed betrayed our God by taking as wives foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet in spite of this there still remains a hope for Israel.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/ezra/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam answered, and said to Esdras: We have sinned against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: and now if there be repentance in Israel concerning this,<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam answered, and said to Esdras: We have sinned against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: and now if there be repentance in Israel concerning this,</p><p class="hdg">Shechaniah</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezra/10-26.htm">Ezra 10:26</a> And of the sons of Elam, Mathania, Zacharias, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jerimoth, and Elia.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../nehemiah/3-29.htm">Nehemiah 3:29</a> After them built Sadoc the son of Emmer over against his house. And after him built Semaia the son of Sechenias, keeper of the east gate.</p><p class="hdg">Elam</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezra/2-7.htm">Ezra 2:7,31</a> The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty-four. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../nehemiah/7-12.htm">Nehemiah 7:12,34</a> The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four. . . . </p><p class="hdg">Compare</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/2-9.htm">James 2:9</a> But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved by the law as transgressors.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/34-12.htm">Exodus 34:12</a> Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../nehemiah/13-27.htm">Nehemiah 13:27</a> And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to transgress against our God, and marry strange women:</p><p class="hdg">yet now there is hope</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/34-6.htm">Exodus 34:6,7</a> And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/55-6.htm">Isaiah 55:6,7</a> Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/3-12.htm">Jeremiah 3:12,13</a> Go, and proclaim these words towards the north, and thou shalt say: Return, O rebellious Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not turn away my face from you: for I am holy, saith the Lord, and I will not be angry for ever. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/1-7.htm">1 John 1:7-9</a> But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/ezra/10.htm">Shecaniah's Encouragement</a></span><br><span class="reftext">1</span>Now when Esdras was thus praying, and beseeching, and weeping, and lying before the temple of God, there was gathered to him of Israel an exceeding great assembly of men and women and children, and the people wept with much lamentation. <span class="reftext">2</span><span class="highl">And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam answered, and said to Esdras: We have sinned against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: and now if there be repentance in Israel concerning this,</span><span class="reftext">3</span>Let us make a covenant with the Lord our God, to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the will of the Lord, and of them that fear the commandment of the Lord our God: let it be done according to the law.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezra/9-2.htm">Ezra 9:2</a></span><br />For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and they have mingled the holy seed with the people of the lands. And the hand of the princes and magistrates hath been first in this transgression.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../nehemiah/13-27.htm">Nehemiah 13:27</a></span><br />And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to transgress against our God, and marry strange women:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_chronicles/36-19.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/ezra/8-7.htm">Elam</a> <a href="/ezra/10-1.htm">Ezra</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/32-8.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-15.htm">Foreign</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/32-10.htm">Hope</a> <a href="/ezra/10-1.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/ezra/8-9.htm">Jehiel</a> <a href="/ezra/2-61.htm">Married</a> <a href="/ezra/9-14.htm">Peoples</a> <a href="/ezra/8-5.htm">Shecaniah</a> <a href="/ezra/8-5.htm">Shechaniah</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-15.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/36-14.htm">Trespassed</a> <a href="/ezra/10-1.htm">Women</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezra/10-10.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/ezra/10-26.htm">Elam</a> <a href="/ezra/10-5.htm">Ezra</a> <a href="/ezra/10-10.htm">Faith</a> <a href="/ezra/10-10.htm">Foreign</a> <a href="/job/3-9.htm">Hope</a> <a href="/ezra/10-5.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/ezra/10-21.htm">Jehiel</a> <a href="/ezra/10-10.htm">Married</a> <a href="/ezra/10-11.htm">Peoples</a> <a href="/nehemiah/3-29.htm">Shecaniah</a> <a href="/nehemiah/3-29.htm">Shechaniah</a> <a href="/ezra/10-10.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/ezra/10-10.htm">Trespassed</a> <a href="/ezra/10-10.htm">Women</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezra/10-2.htm">Ezra 10:2 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezra/10-2.htm">Ezra 10:2 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezra/10-2.htm">Ezra 10:2 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezra/10-2.htm">Ezra 10:2 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezra/10-2.htm">Ezra 10:2 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezra/10-2.htm">Ezra 10:2 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezra/10-2.htm">Ezra 10:2 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezra/10-2.htm">Ezra 10:2 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/ezra/10-2.htm">Ezra 10:2 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: and around been But by descendants Elam Ezra for foreign from God have hope in is Israel Jehiel land married marrying now of one our peoples said Shecaniah son sons spite still the Then there this to unfaithful us We women yet<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/ezra/10-2.htm">OT History: Ezra 10:2 Shecaniah the son of Jehiel one (Ezr. 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