Ezra 10:10 (LSB)

Passage

Then Ezra the priest arose and said to them, “You have been unfaithful and have married foreign wives adding to the guilt of Israel.

Nearby Context

Ezra 10:8 and that whoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the prince and the elders, all his possessions should be devoted to destruction and he himself separated from the assembly of the exiles.

Ezra 10:9 So all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth of the month, and all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and the heavy rain.

Ezra 10:10 Then Ezra the priest arose and said to them, “You have been unfaithful and have married foreign wives adding to the guilt of Israel.

Ezra 10:11 So now, make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do His will; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”

Ezra 10:12 Then all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice, “This is so! As you have said, so it is our duty to do.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "faith", "ezra", "priest", "arose", "said", "been", "unfaithful", and "married". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "faith" and "ezra", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "So all the men of Judah and..." into verse 11's "So now make confession to Yahweh the...", so "faith" and "ezra" belong inside that flow. In Ezra context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "faith" and "ezra" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.