Ezra 10:1-2

Legacy Standard Bible

Ezra Makes Israel Swear an Oath

10 Now ^(A)while Ezra was praying and making confession, weeping and prostrating himself ^(B)before the house of God, a very large assembly, men, women, and children, gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept bitterly. ² And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, “^(C)We have been unfaithful to our God and have ^[a]married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.