Ezra 9:2

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of [those] lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

For they have taken {H5375} of their daughters {H1323} for themselves, and for their sons {H1121}: so that the holy {H6944} seed {H2233} have mingled {H6148} themselves with the people {H5971} of those lands {H776}: yea, the hand {H3027} of the princes {H8269} and rulers {H5461} hath been chief {H7223} in this trespass {H4604}.

They have taken some of the women from these nations as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has assimilated to the peoples of the lands; moreover, the officials and leaders have been the main offenders in this treachery."

Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

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Cross-References

  • Nehemiah 13:23 (8 votes)

    ¶ In those days also saw I Jews [that] had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:

  • Nehemiah 13:24 (8 votes)

    And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

  • Exodus 34:16 (6 votes)

    And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

  • Ezra 10:18 (6 votes)

    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 brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

  • Ezra 10:44 (6 votes)

    All these had taken strange wives: and [some] of them had wives by whom they had children.

  • Deuteronomy 7:6 (6 votes)

    For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the earth.

  • Deuteronomy 7:1 (5 votes)

    ¶ When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;