Esra 10:10

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Da stod presten Esras op og sa til dem: I har båret eder troløst at og tatt fremmede kvinner til hustruer, og dermed har I øket Israels skyld.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

taken: Heb. caused to dwell, or, brought back

to increase: Ezra 9:6, Numbers 32:14, Joshua 22:17, Joshua 22:18, 2 Chronicles 28:13, Matthew 23:32

Reciprocal: Joshua 7:19 - make Ezra 9:1 - have not separated Nehemiah 10:30 - General Nehemiah 13:23 - married Jeremiah 5:6 - because 2 Timothy 2:16 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Ezra the priest stood up,.... In the midst of the assembly to make his speech, acquainting them with the reason of their meeting together:

and said unto them, ye have transgressed; the law of God in the following instance:

and have taken strange wives; of the people of the land and others, idolatrous persons:

to increase the trespass of Israel; to add to former iniquities, which had been the cause of the captivity.