Ezra 10:10

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Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

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The Babylonian and Persian EmpiresThe Babylonian and Persian empires that carried Judah into exile and later allowed the return.

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Jerusalem was the restored center of Judah’s worship and communal life after the exile, where Ezra addressed the assembled returned exiles. Its significance here is that the people’s covenant unfaithfulness through intermarriage was publicly confronted before the community centered on God’s temple.

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Ezra 10:10 mentions Jerusalem.

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