Ezra 10:14-16

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁴ Let our officers represent the entire assembly, and let everyone in our cities who has married foreign wives come at appointed times. The elders from every city and its judges should come with them, until the fierce anger of our God concerning this matter has been turned away from us.” ¹⁵ (Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.)

¹⁶ So the exiles acted according to this decision. Ezra the priest and men who were the leading fathers of the fathers’ houses^[a] were selected, all of them identified by name. They convened on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.