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Nathan and Azaryah.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ezra/10.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezra/10.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />and Selemia, and Nathan, and Adaia,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezra/10-39.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sh6ec6iQe9M?start=2888" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ezra/10.htm">Those Guilty of Intermarriage</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">38</span>From the descendants of Binnui: Shimei, <span class="reftext">39</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/8018.htm" title="8018: wə·še·lem·yāh (Conj-w:: N-proper-ms) -- Or Shelemyahuw; from shelem and Yahh; thank-offering of Jah; Shelemjah, the name of nine Israelites.">Shelemiah,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5416.htm" title="5416: wə·nā·ṯān (Conj-w:: N-proper-ms) -- The name of a number of Isr. From nathan; given; Nathan, the name of five Israelites.">Nathan,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5718.htm" title="5718: wa·‘ă·ḏā·yāh (Conj-w:: N-proper-ms) -- Or madayahuw; from adah and Yahh; Jah has adorned; Adajah, the name of eight Israelites.">Adaiah,</a> </span><span class="reftext">40</span>Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/13-23.htm">Nehemiah 13:23-27</a></span><br />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! ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-3.htm">Deuteronomy 7:3-4</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/11-1.htm">1 Kings 11:1-2</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/2-11.htm">Malachi 2:11</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/34-15.htm">Exodus 34:15-16</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-14.htm">2 Corinthians 6:14-17</a></span><br />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.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joshua/23-12.htm">Joshua 23:12-13</a></span><br />For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, / know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-12.htm">1 Corinthians 7:12-14</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/judges/3-5.htm">Judges 3:5-6</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/16-31.htm">1 Kings 16:31</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/10-30.htm">Nehemiah 10:30</a></span><br />We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-33.htm">2 Kings 17:33-34</a></span><br />They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away. / To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-9.htm">1 Corinthians 5:9-11</a></span><br />I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. / I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. / But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/19-2.htm">2 Chronicles 19:2</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/19-4.htm">Matthew 19:4-6</a></span><br />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.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezra/10-29.htm">Adaiah</a> <a href="/ezra/10-29.htm">Adai'ah</a> <a href="/ezra/8-16.htm">Nathan</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/26-14.htm">Shelemiah</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/26-14.htm">Shelemi'ah</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/nehemiah/11-5.htm">Adaiah</a> <a href="/nehemiah/11-5.htm">Adai'ah</a> <a href="/psalms/50-23.htm">Nathan</a> <a href="/ezra/10-41.htm">Shelemiah</a> <a href="/ezra/10-41.htm">Shelemi'ah</a><div class="vheading2">Ezra 10</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezra/10-1.htm">Ezra encouraged to reform the strange marriages</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezra/10-6.htm">Ezra assembles the people</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezra/10-9.htm">The people repent, and promise amendment</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezra/10-15.htm">The care to perform it</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezra/10-18.htm">The names of them which had married strange wives</a></span><br></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><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <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> <br /><br /> </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><b>Shelemiah</b><br>Shelemiah is a name that appears several times in the Old Testament, often associated with individuals who were part of the priestly or Levitical lines. The name means "God has repaid" or "God is peace," reflecting a common practice in Hebrew culture of naming children with meanings that express faith or hope. In the context of <a href="/ezra/10.htm">Ezra 10</a>, Shelemiah is one of the Israelites who had taken foreign wives, which was against the Mosaic Law. This highlights the ongoing struggle of the Israelites to maintain their distinct identity and covenant relationship with God, especially after returning from exile.<p><b>Nathan</b><br>Nathan is a name that means "He has given" or "Gift" in Hebrew. It is a common name in the Bible, most notably associated with the prophet Nathan who advised King David. In <a href="/ezra/10.htm">Ezra 10</a>, Nathan is listed among those who had married foreign women, which was a significant issue for the post-exilic community striving to reestablish their religious and cultural purity. This reflects the broader theme of repentance and reform that is central to the book of Ezra, as the community seeks to align itself with God's commandments.<p><b>Adaiah</b><br>Adaiah means "Yahweh has adorned" or "Yahweh has made" in Hebrew. This name appears multiple times in the Old Testament, often linked to individuals of priestly or Levitical descent. In the context of <a href="/ezra/10.htm">Ezra 10</a>, Adaiah is another individual who had taken a foreign wife, contributing to the communal sin that Ezra sought to address. This situation underscores the importance of obedience to God's laws and the need for communal purity, as the Israelites were called to be a holy nation set apart for God's purposes. The inclusion of Adaiah in this list serves as a reminder of the personal and communal responsibility to uphold the covenant with God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/s/shelemiah.htm">Shelemiah</a></b><br>A name meaning "God has repaid" or "God is peace." In the context of <a href="/bsb/ezra/10.htm">Ezra 10</a>, Shelemiah is one of the Israelites who had taken foreign wives, which was against the covenantal laws of Israel.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/n/nathan.htm">Nathan</a></b><br>Another individual listed among those who had taken foreign wives. The name Nathan means "He gave" or "Gift," and it is a common name in the Old Testament, often associated with prophets or leaders.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/a/adaiah.htm">Adaiah</a></b><br>This name means "Yahweh has adorned" or "Yahweh has witnessed." Adaiah is also listed among those who had taken foreign wives, highlighting the widespread issue of intermarriage with non-Israelites during this period.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_obedience.htm">The Importance of Obedience</a></b><br>The Israelites' disobedience in marrying foreign wives highlights the importance of adhering to God's commands. Obedience is a demonstration of our love and commitment to God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_compromise.htm">The Consequences of Compromise</a></b><br>Compromising on God's standards can lead to spiritual decline. The Israelites' intermarriage with foreign women risked leading them away from their covenant relationship with God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_restoration.htm">Repentance and Restoration</a></b><br>Ezra 10 is a powerful example of the need for repentance and the steps toward restoration. The Israelites' willingness to address their sin and make amends is a model for us today.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_accountability.htm">Community Accountability</a></b><br>The communal nature of the Israelites' repentance shows the importance of accountability within the faith community. We are called to support and encourage one another in living according to God's standards.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezra_10.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezra 10</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_wrote_the_books_of_the_bible.htm">Who wrote the books of the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_ezra_10_10_align_with_anti-divorce.htm">Ezra 10:10 - How is this command to divorce reconcileable with other biblical teachings that appear to disapprove of divorce?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_separate_if_some_converted.htm">Ezra 10:44 - How can a just God require separating from wives and children if some may have converted to the faith?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/ezra_10_15__why_few_oppose_this_action.htm">Ezra 10:15 - Why are only a few individuals mentioned as opposing this course of action, despite its obvious moral and social implications?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezra/10-39.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Shelemiah,</span><br /><span class="heb">וְשֶֽׁלֶמְיָ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·še·lem·yāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8018.htm">Strong's 8018: </a> </span><span class="str2">Shelemiah -- 'friend of Yah', the name of several Israelites</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Nathan,</span><br /><span class="heb">וְנָתָ֖ן</span> <span class="translit">(wə·nā·ṯān)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5416.htm">Strong's 5416: </a> </span><span class="str2">Nathan -- the name of a number of Israelites</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Adaiah,</span><br /><span class="heb">וַעֲדָיָֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(wa·‘ă·ḏā·yāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5718.htm">Strong's 5718: </a> </span><span class="str2">Adaiah -- 'Yah has ornamented Himself', the name of a number of Israelites</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezra/10-39.htm">Ezra 10:39 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezra/10-39.htm">Ezra 10:39 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezra/10-39.htm">Ezra 10:39 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezra/10-39.htm">Ezra 10:39 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezra/10-39.htm">Ezra 10:39 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezra/10-39.htm">Ezra 10:39 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezra/10-39.htm">Ezra 10:39 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezra/10-39.htm">Ezra 10:39 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezra/10-39.htm">Ezra 10:39 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezra/10-39.htm">Ezra 10:39 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezra/10-39.htm">OT History: Ezra 10:39 And Shelemiah and Nathan and Adaiah (Ezr. 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