[:en]Thoughts from Ezra 9 – 10[:]

[:en]The Lord commanded the people of Israel not to intermarriage with the people there.  But they did not listen.  So Ezra prayed and confessed before the Lord and the people fathered around him also wept bitterly.  Ezra then issued a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem for all the exiles to assemble in Jerusalem and make confessions to the Lord.  They dealt with the men who had married foreign wives.[:]