Ezra 10:4-7

10:4 Get up, for this matter concerns you. We are with you, so be strong and act decisively!”

10:5 So Ezra got up and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath to carry out this plan. ¹  And they all took a solemn oath. 10:6 Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed ²  there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.

10:7 A proclamation ³  was circulated ⁴  throughout Judah and Jerusalem ⁵  that all the exiles were to be assembled in Jerusalem.

[10:5]  ¹ tn Heb “to do according to this plan.”

[10:6]  ¹ tc The translation reads וַיָּלֶן (vayyalen, “and he stayed”) rather than the reading וַיֵּלֶךְ (vayyelekh, “and he went”) of the MT. Cf. the LXX.

[10:7]  ¹ tn Heb “voice.”

[10:7]  ² tn Heb “they sent.”

[10:7]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.