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Ezr 10:3 — Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

let us make		"Nichrath berith, ""let us cut a covenant:"" Deu 29:12; Jos 9:6; 2Ki 11:17; 2Ch 29:10; 2Ch 34:31,32; Neh 9:38; Neh 10:29-39"
put away		Heb. bring forth
according to the counsel		2Ch 30:12
of those that		Ezr 9:4; 2Ch 34:21,27; Psa 119:59,120; Isa 66:2; Eze 9:4
at the commandment		Deu 7:2,3; Jos 23:12,13
let it		"Neh 8:14; Neh 13:1-3; Isa 8:20; Shechaniah's counsel, which he was then so clear in, will not hold now: such marriages, it is certain, are contrary to the will of God, and ought not to be made; but they are not null. Our rule under the gospel is {Quod fieri non debuit, factum valet,} ""That which ought not to have been done must, when done, abide."" See; 1Cr 7:12,13"

Correlating Passages

let us make

	Deu 29:12	That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
	Jos 9:6	And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.
	2Ki 11:17	And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people.
	2Ch 29:10	Now [it is] in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
	2Ch 34:31	And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
	2Ch 34:32	And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand [to it]. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
	Neh 9:38	And because of all this we make a sure [covenant], and write [it]; and our princes, Levites, [and] priests, seal [unto it].
	Neh 10:29	They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
	Neh 10:30	And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
	Neh 10:31	And [if] the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, [that] we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and [that] we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
	Neh 10:32	Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;
	Neh 10:33	For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy [things], and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and [for] all the work of the house of our God.
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according to the counsel

2Ch 30:12

Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.

of those that

	Ezr 9:4	Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
	2Ch 34:21	Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great [is] the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.
	2Ch 34:27	Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard [thee] also, saith the LORD.
	Psa 119:59	I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
	Psa 119:120	My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
	Isa 66:2	For all those [things] hath mine hand made, and all those [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
	Eze 9:4	And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

at the commandment

	Deu 7:2	And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
	Deu 7:3	Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
	Jos 23:12	Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, [even] these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
	Jos 23:13	Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out [any of] these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

let it

	Neh 8:14	And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
	Neh 13:1	On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
	Neh 13:2	Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
	Neh 13:3	Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
	Isa 8:20	To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.
	1Cr 7:12	But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
	1Cr 7:13	And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

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Scott, Thomas. "Ezra 10:3," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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