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Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/nkjv/ezra/10.htm">New King James Version</a> And among the sons of the priests who had taken pagan wives the following were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/nasb_/ezra/10.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Now among the sons of the priests who had married foreign wives were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/nasb/ezra/10.htm">NASB 1995</a> Among the sons of the priests who had married foreign wives were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah. <a href="/nasb77/ezra/10.htm">NASB 1977 </a> And among the sons of the priests who had married foreign wives were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/lsb/ezra/10.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Among the sons of the priests who had married foreign wives were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah. <a href="/amp/ezra/10.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Now among the sons of the priests who had married foreign women were found: of the sons of Jeshua [the high priest] the son of Jozadak, and his brothers—Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/csb/ezra/10.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> The following were found to have married foreign women from the descendants of the priests: from the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/hcsb/ezra/10.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> The following were found to have married foreign women from the descendants of the priests: from the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/asv/ezra/10.htm">American Standard Version</a> And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women: namely, of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/erv/ezra/10.htm">English Revised Version</a> And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married strange women: namely, of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/gwt/ezra/10.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Among the descendants of the priests, the following were married to foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, a descendant of Jeshua (who was Jozadak's son) and his brothers. <a href="/gnt/ezra/10.htm">Good News Translation</a> This is the list of the men who had foreign wives: Priests, listed by clans: Clan of Joshua and his brothers, sons of Jehozadak: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/isv/ezra/10.htm">International Standard Version</a> Here is a list of priestly descendants who were found to have married foreign women. From Jeshua's descendants: Jozadak's son and his brothers Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/msb/ezra/10.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/net/ezra/10.htm">NET Bible</a> It was determined that from the descendants of the priests, the following had taken foreign wives: from the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/nheb/ezra/10.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/wbt/ezra/10.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken foreign wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/web/ezra/10.htm">World English Bible</a> Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezra/10.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And there are found of the sons of the priests that have settled strange women: of the sons of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah; <a href="/ylt/ezra/10.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And there are found of the sons of the priests that have settled strange women: of the sons of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah; <a href="/slt/ezra/10.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And there will be found from the sons of the priest who dwelt with strange wives: from the sons of Joshua son of Josedek and his brethren: Maaseiah and Eleazar, and Jarib and Gedaliah.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezra/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And there were found among the sons of the priests that had taken strange wives: Of the sons of Josue the son of Josedec, and his brethren, Maasia, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Godolia. <a href="/cpdv/ezra/10.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And there were found among the sons of the priests some who had taken foreign wives: From the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/nabre/ezra/10.htm">New American Bible</a> Among the priests, the following were found to have taken foreign women for wives: Of the descendants of Jeshua, son of Jozadak, and his kinsmen: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/nrsvce/ezra/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> There were found of the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women, of the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezra/10.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And among the descendants of the priests there were found some who had taken foreign wives, namely, of the sons of Joshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers, Maasiah and Eleazer and Jonadab and Gedaliah. <a href="/hpbt/ezra/10.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And some of the sons of the Priests who married foreign women were found from the children of Yeshua, son of Yozedeq, and his brothers, Massia and Eliazar and Yonadab and Gedaliah.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezra/10.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women, namely: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. <a href="/sep/ezra/10.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And there were found some of the sons of the priests who had taken strange wives: of the sons of Jesus the son of Josedec, and his brethren; Maasia, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gadalia. <a href="/parallel/ezra/10-18.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sh6ec6iQe9M?start=2734" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezra/10.htm">Those Guilty of Intermarriage</a> 18<a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: mib·bə·nê (Prep-m:: N-mpc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">Among the descendants</a> <a href="/hebrew/3548.htm" title="3548: hak·kō·hă·nîm (Art:: N-mp) -- Priest. Active participle of kahan; literally, one officiating, a priest; also an acting priest.">of the priests</a> <a href="/hebrew/3427.htm" title="3427: hō·šî·ḇū (V-Hifil-Perf-3cp) -- A primitive root; properly, to sit down; by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry.">who had married</a> <a href="/hebrew/5237.htm" title="5237: nā·ḵə·rî·yō·wṯ (Adj-fp) -- Foreign, alien. From neker; strange, in a variety of degrees and applications.">foreign</a> <a href="/hebrew/802.htm" title="802: nā·šîm (N-fp) -- Woman, wife, female. Feminine of 'iysh or 'enowsh; irregular plural, nashiym; a woman.">women</a> <a href="/hebrew/4672.htm" title="4672: way·yim·mā·ṣê (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To attain to, find. ">were found</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: mib·bə·nê (Prep-m:: N-mpc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">these descendants</a> <a href="/hebrew/3442.htm" title="3442: yê·šū·a‘ (N-proper-ms) -- Jeshua. For Yhowshuwa'; he will save; Jeshua, the name of ten Israelites, also of a place in Palestine.">of Jeshua</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ben- (N-msc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">son</a> <a href="/hebrew/3136.htm" title="3136: yō·w·ṣā·ḏāq (N-proper-ms) -- Jotsadak. A form of Yhowtsadaq; Jotsadak, an Israelite.">of Jozadak</a> <a href="/hebrew/251.htm" title="251: wə·’e·ḥāw (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 3ms) -- A brother. A primitive word; a brother (like 'ab).">and his brothers:</a> <a href="/hebrew/4641.htm" title="4641: ma·‘ă·śê·yāh (N-proper-ms) -- Or Maaseyahuw; from ma'aseh and Yahh; work of Jah; Maasejah, the name of sixteen Israelites.">Maaseiah,</a> <a href="/hebrew/461.htm" title="461: we·’ĕ·lî·‘e·zer (Conj-w:: N-proper-ms) -- From 'el and ezer; God of help; Eliezer, the name of a Damascene and of ten Israelites.">Eliezer,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3402.htm" title="3402: wə·yā·rîḇ (Conj-w:: N-proper-ms) -- He contends, an Isr. name. The same as yariyb; Jarib, the name of three Israelites.">Jarib,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1436.htm" title="1436: ū·ḡə·ḏal·yāh (Conj-w:: N-proper-ms) -- Or Gdalyahuw; from gadal and Yahh; Jah has become great; Gedaljah, the name of five Israelites.">and Gedaliah.</a> 19They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/nehemiah/13-23.htm">Nehemiah 13:23-27</a> In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. / Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah. / I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves! ... <a href="/malachi/2-11.htm">Malachi 2:11-12</a> Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god. / As for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who is awake and aware—even if he brings an offering to the LORD of Hosts. <a href="/deuteronomy/7-3.htm">Deuteronomy 7:3-4</a> Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, / because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you. <a href="/1_kings/11-1.htm">1 Kings 11:1-4</a> King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. / These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love. / He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away. ... <a href="/2_corinthians/6-14.htm">2 Corinthians 6:14-17</a> Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? / What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? / What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” ... <a href="/exodus/34-15.htm">Exodus 34:15-16</a> Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices. / And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same. <a href="/1_corinthians/7-12.htm">1 Corinthians 7:12-14</a> To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. / And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. / For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. <a href="/judges/3-5.htm">Judges 3:5-6</a> Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. / And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods. <a href="/1_kings/16-31.htm">1 Kings 16:31-33</a> And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal. / First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria. / Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him. <a href="/2_kings/17-7.htm">2 Kings 17:7-8</a> All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods / and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. <a href="/nehemiah/9-2.htm">Nehemiah 9:2</a> Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. <a href="/1_corinthians/5-1.htm">1 Corinthians 5:1-2</a> It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. / And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this? <a href="/2_chronicles/19-2.htm">2 Chronicles 19:2</a> Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you. <a href="/matthew/19-4.htm">Matthew 19:4-6</a> Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ / and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? / So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.” <a href="/2_chronicles/21-6.htm">2 Chronicles 21:6</a> And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.the sons<a href="/ezra/9-1.htm">Ezra 9:1</a> Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.<a href="/leviticus/21-7.htm">Leviticus 21:7,13-15</a> They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God… <a href="/1_samuel/2-22.htm">1 Samuel 2:22-24</a> Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation… Jeshua.<a href="/ezra/2-2.htm">Ezra 2:2</a> Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:<a href="/ezra/3-2.htm">Ezra 3:2</a> Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.<a href="/ezra/5-2.htm">Ezra 5:2</a> Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.Joshua.<a href="/nehemiah/8-4.htm">Nehemiah 8:4,7</a> And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezra/8-19.htm">Descendants</a> <a href="/ezra/8-16.htm">Eliezer</a> <a href="/ezra/8-16.htm">Elie'zer</a> <a href="/ezra/2-59.htm">Following</a> <a href="/ezra/10-17.htm">Foreign</a> <a href="/ezra/8-15.htm">Found</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/25-9.htm">Gedaliah</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/25-9.htm">Gedali'ah</a> <a href="/ezra/8-16.htm">Jarib</a> <a href="/ezra/8-33.htm">Jeshua</a> <a href="/ezra/5-2.htm">Jozadak</a> <a href="/ezra/5-2.htm">Jo'zadak</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/34-8.htm">Maaseiah</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/28-7.htm">Ma-Asei'ah</a> <a href="/ezra/10-17.htm">Married</a> <a href="/ezra/8-17.htm">Namely</a> <a href="/ezra/10-5.htm">Priests</a> <a href="/ezra/10-17.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/ezra/10-17.htm">Wives</a> <a href="/ezra/10-17.htm">Women</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezra/10-20.htm">Descendants</a> <a href="/ezra/10-23.htm">Eliezer</a> <a href="/ezra/10-23.htm">Elie'zer</a> <a href="/nehemiah/7-5.htm">Following</a> <a href="/ezra/10-44.htm">Foreign</a> <a href="/nehemiah/2-5.htm">Found</a> <a href="/jeremiah/38-1.htm">Gedaliah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/38-1.htm">Gedali'ah</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/4-24.htm">Jarib</a> <a href="/nehemiah/3-19.htm">Jeshua</a> <a href="/nehemiah/12-26.htm">Jozadak</a> <a href="/nehemiah/12-26.htm">Jo'zadak</a> <a href="/ezra/10-21.htm">Maaseiah</a> <a href="/ezra/10-21.htm">Ma-Asei'ah</a> <a href="/ezra/10-44.htm">Married</a> <a href="/nehemiah/7-11.htm">Namely</a> <a href="/nehemiah/2-16.htm">Priests</a> <a href="/ezra/10-44.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/ezra/10-19.htm">Wives</a> <a href="/ezra/10-44.htm">Women</a><div class="vheading2">Ezra 10</div>1. <a href="/ezra/10-1.htm">Ezra encouraged to reform the strange marriages</a> 6. <a href="/ezra/10-6.htm">Ezra assembles the people</a> 9. <a href="/ezra/10-9.htm">The people repent, and promise amendment</a> 15. <a href="/ezra/10-15.htm">The care to perform it</a> 18. <a href="/ezra/10-18.htm">The names of them which had married strange wives</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezra/10.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezra/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezra/10.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>Among the descendants of the priests The priests held a significant role in Israelite society, serving as mediators between God and the people. Their lineage was crucial, as they were descendants of Aaron, the brother of Moses. This phrase highlights the importance of maintaining purity within the priestly line, as they were responsible for performing sacred duties in the temple.who had married foreign women Marrying foreign women was a direct violation of the Mosaic Law, which prohibited Israelites from intermarrying with surrounding nations (<a href="/deuteronomy/7-3.htm">Deuteronomy 7:3-4</a>). This was not an ethnic issue but a spiritual one, as foreign wives often led Israelites to idolatry, as seen in the case of Solomon (<a href="/1_kings/11.htm">1 Kings 11:1-4</a>). The concern was the potential for these marriages to lead the priests and the people away from worshiping Yahweh.were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers Jeshua, also known as Joshua, was the high priest who returned with Zerubbabel from the Babylonian exile (<a href="/ezra/2-2.htm">Ezra 2:2</a>). He played a crucial role in rebuilding the temple and restoring worship in Jerusalem (<a href="/haggai/1-12.htm">Haggai 1:12-14</a>). The mention of his descendants indicates the seriousness of the issue, as even the family of the high priest was not exempt from the transgression.Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah These names represent specific individuals within the priestly families who had taken foreign wives. The listing of names serves to personalize the account, showing that real people were involved in this breach of covenant. It underscores the need for accountability and repentance among the leaders of the community. The inclusion of these names also reflects the biblical principle of individual responsibility for sin, as seen in <a href="/ezekiel/18-20.htm">Ezekiel 18:20</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jeshua_son_of_jozadak.htm">Jeshua son of Jozadak</a> Jeshua was the high priest who returned with Zerubbabel from the Babylonian exile. He played a significant role in rebuilding the temple and restoring worship in Jerusalem. 2. <a href="/topical/m/maaseiah,_eliezer,_jarib,_and_gedaliah.htm">Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah</a> These were priests, descendants of Jeshua, who were found to have married foreign women, which was against the Law of Moses. 3. <a href="/topical/f/foreign_women.htm">Foreign Women</a> The term refers to women from surrounding nations who did not follow the God of Israel. Marrying them was prohibited to prevent the Israelites from being led into idolatry. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_event_of_repentance.htm">The Event of Repentance</a> This chapter describes a significant moment of repentance and reform among the Israelites, as they sought to correct their disobedience to God's laws. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_exile_and_return.htm">The Exile and Return</a> The context of this event is the return of the Israelites from Babylonian exile, a time of rebuilding both physically and spiritually.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_obedience.htm">The Importance of Obedience</a> God's commands are given for our protection and spiritual well-being. Disobedience can lead to spiritual compromise and idolatry. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_leadership_in_repentance.htm">The Role of Leadership in Repentance</a> Leaders, like the priests in Ezra's time, are called to set an example in obedience and repentance. Their actions can lead others toward or away from God. <a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_holiness.htm">The Call to Holiness</a> As believers, we are called to be set apart for God. This includes making choices that honor Him in our relationships and daily lives. <a href="/topical/t/the_power_of_repentance.htm">The Power of Repentance</a> True repentance involves recognizing sin, confessing it, and taking steps to correct it. This leads to restoration and renewed fellowship with God. <a href="/topical/g/guarding_against_spiritual_compromise.htm">Guarding Against Spiritual Compromise</a> We must be vigilant in our relationships and associations, ensuring they align with our faith and do not lead us away from God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezra_10.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezra 10</a> <a href="/q/why_did_levites_oversee_construction.htm">(Ezra 3:8-9) Why would Levites, rather than skilled foremen or Persian officials, be in charge of supervising construction under Persian rule?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_nehemiah_8_9-12_urge_joy,_not_sorrow.htm">Why do Nehemiah 8:9-12 command people to rejoice instead of mourning if they had just realized their past failures?</a> <a href="/q/who_fathered_shealtiel.htm">Who was the father of Shealtiel? (Matthew 1:12 vs. 1 Chronicles 3:17)</a> <a href="/q/who_was_the_high_priest_in_the_bible.htm">Who was the high priest in the Bible?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezra/10.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(18-44) List of the transgressors.(19) They gave their hands.--The four members of the high priest's family were peculiarly dealt with. They gave their distinct pledge, and offered each a special trespass offering. It is one among a multitude of similar tokens of authenticity in the history; and inventor would have given some reason for the peculiarity.(22) Pashur.--Comparing <a href="/context/ezra/2-36.htm" title="The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.">Ezra 2:36-39</a>, we find that all the priestly families that returned with Zerub-babel were implicated in the national offence.(25) Of Israel.--Of the laity eighty-six are mentioned, belonging to ten races which returned with Zerubbabel.(34) Bani.--Probably this should be some other name, as Bani occurs before. The peculiarly large number of the representatives of his race suggests that there is some confusion in the present text.(44) All these had taken strange wives.--Though the numbers are not summed up and distributed, it is evident that this closing sentence is emphatic. Ezra ends his history with a catalogue of the delinquents--strong testimony to the importance he attached to the reformation. The last words--literally, and there were of them wives who had brought forth children--tend in the same direction. Not even this pathetic fact restrained the thoroughness of the excision. But the Book of Nehemiah (<a href="/nehemiah/13-23.htm" title="In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:">Nehemiah 13:23</a> seq.) will show that it was thorough only for a time.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezra/10.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 18. - Joshua the son of Jozadak is, undoubtedly, the high priest of chs. 3. and 5. Four members of his family had committed the sin (compare <a href="/nehemiah/13-28.htm">Nehemiah 13:28</a>). <a href="/commentaries/ezra/10-18.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Among the descendants מִבְּנֵ֣י (mib·bə·nê) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son of the priests הַכֹּהֲנִ֔ים (hak·kō·hă·nîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3548.htm">Strong's 3548: </a> Priest who had married הֹשִׁ֖יבוּ (hō·šî·ḇū) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3427.htm">Strong's 3427: </a> To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry foreign נָכְרִיּ֑וֹת (nā·ḵə·rî·yō·wṯ) Adjective - feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5237.htm">Strong's 5237: </a> Foreign, alien women נָשִׁ֣ים (nā·šîm) Noun - feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_802.htm">Strong's 802: </a> Woman, wife, female were found וַיִּמָּצֵא֙ (way·yim·mā·ṣê) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4672.htm">Strong's 4672: </a> To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present these descendants מִבְּנֵ֨י (mib·bə·nê) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son of Jeshua יֵשׁ֤וּעַ (yê·šū·a‘) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3442.htm">Strong's 3442: </a> Jeshua son בֶּן־ (ben-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son of Jozadak יֽוֹצָדָק֙ (yō·w·ṣā·ḏāq) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3136.htm">Strong's 3136: </a> Jotsadak and his brothers: וְאֶחָ֔יו (wə·’e·ḥāw) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_251.htm">Strong's 251: </a> A brother, ) Maaseiah, מַֽעֲשֵׂיָה֙ (ma·‘ă·śê·yāh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4641.htm">Strong's 4641: </a> Maaseiah -- 'work of Yah', the name of a number of Israelites Eliezer, וֶֽאֱלִיעֶ֔זֶר (we·’ĕ·lî·‘e·zer) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_461.htm">Strong's 461: </a> Eliezer -- 'God is help', the name of several Israelites, also of a Damascene Jarib, וְיָרִ֖יב (wə·yā·rîḇ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3402.htm">Strong's 3402: </a> Jarib -- 'He contends', an Israelite name and Gedaliah. וּגְדַלְיָֽה׃ (ū·ḡə·ḏal·yāh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1436.htm">Strong's 1436: </a> Gedaliah -- 'Yah is great', three Israelites <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezra/10-18.htm">Ezra 10:18 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezra/10-18.htm">Ezra 10:18 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezra/10-18.htm">Ezra 10:18 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezra/10-18.htm">Ezra 10:18 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezra/10-18.htm">Ezra 10:18 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezra/10-18.htm">Ezra 10:18 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezra/10-18.htm">Ezra 10:18 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezra/10-18.htm">Ezra 10:18 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezra/10-18.htm">Ezra 10:18 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezra/10-18.htm">Ezra 10:18 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezra/10-18.htm">OT History: Ezra 10:18 Among the sons of the priests there (Ezr. 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