Positivity Successor - Episode 438 - Positivity Successor (Ezra 9-10, 10-End Of Ezra Chapter)

Episode Date: September 6, 2026

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Hey, positive people. Welcome to positivity successor. This goes from Monday through Sunday, including holidays every season, every year, clean leap year. Thanks to tune to the light changing podcast, God bless. Amen. Have a positive day. Welcome to Positiveity Successor Episode 438. Continue on with the Bible. Let's get into it. Ezra's Prayer About Intermarriage, 9. After these things had been done,

the leaders came to me and said, The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perzites, Jubocytes, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites. they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons and have mingled the holy race with the peoples around them and the leaders and officials have led the way in this unfaithfulness when I heard this I tore my tunic and cloak pulled hair from my head and beard and satire down appalled. Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me

because of this unfaithfulness of the exiles. I sat there appalled until the evening sacrifice. Then at the evening sacrifice, I rose from myself a basement with my tunic and cloak torn and fell on my knees with my hands spread out to the Lord, my God, and prayed. Oh, my God, I am too ashamed and disgrace to lift up my face to you, my God, because our sins are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached to the heavens. From the days of our forefathers until now, our guilt has been great, because of our sins we

have we and our kings and our priests have been subjected to the sword and captivity to pillage in humiliation

at the hand of foreign kings as it is today but now for a brief moment the Lord our God has been gracious in leaving us a remnant

and giving us a firm place in the sanctuary. And so our God gives light to our eyes in a little relief in our bondage. Though we are slaves, our God has not deserted us in our bondage. He has shown us kindness in the sight of the kings of Persia. He has granted us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins. and he has given us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem. But now, oh, our God, what can we say after this? For we have disregarded the commands.

You gave through your servants the prophets when you said, the land you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the corruption of its people. by their detestable practices they have filled it with their impurity from one end to the other. Therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them at any time that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it to your children. has an everlasting inheritance. What has happened to us is a result of our evil deeds

and our great guilt and yet our God you have punished us less than our sins have deserved and have given us a remnant like this.

Shall we again break your commands and intermarry with the peoples who commit such detestable practices would you not be angry enough with us

to destroy us leaving us no remnant or survivor oh Lord God of Israel you are righteous we are left this day as the remnant here we are before you and our guilt

though because of it Not one of us can stand in your presence. The people's confession of sin. 10. While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites, men, women, and children gathered around him. They two wept barely. Then Shikania sent him.

Jahil, one of the descendants of Alam, said to Ezra, we have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the peoples around us, but in spite of this, there is still hope for Israel. Now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all these women and their children in accordance with the counsel of my Lord, and of those who fear the commands of our Lord,

our God. Let it be done according to the law. Rise up. This matters in your hands. We will support you. So take courage and do it. So Ezra rose up and put the leading priests and Levites and all Israel under oath to do what had been suggested. And they took the oath. Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the room of Jeho Hanan Son of the Leahship while he was there he ate no food

and drank no water because he continued to mourn over the unfaithfulness of the exiles a proclamation was then issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem for all the exiles to assemble in Jerusalem anyone who failed to appear within three days

would forfeit all his property in accordance with the decision of the officials and elders and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles within the three days all the men of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem and on the 20th day of the ninth month

all the people were seeing in the square before the house of God, greatly distressed by the occasion because of the rain. Then Ezraud the priest stood up and said to them, You have been unfaithful. You have married foreign women

adding to Israel's guilt. Now make confession to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples around you and from your foreign wives. the whole assembly responding with a loud voice you are right we must do as you say but there are many people here and it is the rainy season so we cannot stand outside besides this matter cannot be taken of in a day or two because we have sinned greatly in this thing what our officials act for the whole assembly then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at a set time along with the elders and judges of each town until the fierce anger of our God and this matter is turned away from us only Jonathan son of Azale and Jazea son of Tigva supported by Mashalam and Shabed the Levite opposed this.

So the exiles did as we proposed, as were the pre-selected men who were family heads, one from each family division, and all of them designed, designated by name. On the first day of the 10th month, they sat down to investigate the cases, and by the first day of the first month, they finished dealing with all the men

who had married foreign women, those guilty of intermarriage among the descendants of the priest the following had married foreign women from the descendants of Jeshua, son of Josiah Dach and his brothers, Masea,

Elyzer, Jerib, and Gadalia, they all gave their hands and pledged to put away their wives. And for their guilt, they each presented a ramp from the flock as a guilt offering, from the descendants of Imer Hanani and Zabadiah

From the descendants of Pharam Mazia, Elijah, Shamea, Jihil, and Uzia From the descendants of Pashir, Alejone, Mazia, Ismail, Nathaniel, Josabad, and Al-Zah Among the Levites, Josephabad, Shemi, Kalea, that is Kalita,

Pethania, Judah, and Elyzer. From the singers, Eliaship, from the gatekeeper, Shalom, Telem, and Yuri, and among the other Israelites, from the descendants of Poros, Ramia, Izya, Malkaja, Mahjaman, Al-Azhar, Malkajah and Banea

For the descent of Alam Matanaya Zicharya, Jihil, Abdi, Jermath and Elijah for the sentence of Zatu Elionay, Elijah Matae

Naya Jermoth, Zabad and Aziza Jha Naya, Zabai, and Aflei. From the sense of Barney, Mahalam, Malush, Adia, Dishab,

Shilin, Jermath. For the sense of behalf, Mouab, Adna, Kowal, Banea, Manes, Maseya, Matanaya, Bazzel, Benui,

and Manese From the descendants of Harim Elizir Ishaja Malakaja Shimeya Shimeon

Benjamin Malish and Shemaria from the sentence of Hashob Matine Matania Sabad Alifilat

Germay Menei and Shime From the descendants of Bonnie Madai Amram U.

Banea Badiya Kulaheeha Vanya Maramoth Eliasib Matanaya Metanay

and Jashu from the Senza Benui Shime Shalamia Nathan

Adia Adaya Makhna Dibai Shoshai Shirai, Azaro, Shalamaya, Shemaria, Shalom, Amaria, and Joseph. For the sentence of Nebo, Jill Matathaya, Tabad, Zabina, Jaday, Jail, and Banea. All these had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

So I reached the end of the chapter of Ezra. The next chapter will be Nehemia. The next chapter will be Nehemia. And before I go into that chapter, I'll read the Did You Know and the Life in Bible Times by the previous of the Ezra chapter in the next episode. Thanks to see in the interesting, Bayard, our episode positive successor. Remember to the back of the reflections to ourselves in the mirror to all the beautiful and handsome people out there

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