Ezra 10:44 References

44 All these had married aforeign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

a 1 Kings 11:1-3, Ezra 10:3

1 Kings 11

1 Now aKing Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

2 from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, "aYou shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods." Solomon held fast to these in love.

3 aHe had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.

Ezra 10

3 "So now alet us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and btheir children, according to the counsel of my lord and of cthose who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done daccording to the law.