Ezra 9:1

“Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.”

"Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites." - Ezra 9:1
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What does Ezra 9:1 mean?

The Bible verse Ezra 9:1 in the King James Version reads: "Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations…

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Separated Unto God: A Call for Holiness

Ezra 9:1 states, "Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the…

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A Prayer for Separation and Holiness

O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, I come before You in humble reverence, acknowledging Your holiness and the vastness of Your creation. With a heart yearning for purity, I reflect upon the words of Ezra, for the wisdom of Scripture is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our…

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Ezra 9:1 - "Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites."
Ezra 1:9 - "And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,"
Ezra 9:6
Ezra 3:9
Ezra 9:3
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Ezra 2:9 - "The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore."
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"And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives," - Ezra 1:9
Ezra 8:9 - "Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males."
Ezra 7:1 - "Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,"
"The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore." - Ezra 2:9
Ezra 1:1 king Cyrus
Ezra 9:10 - "And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,"
Ezra 6:1-12
Ezra 5:9 - "Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?"
Ezra 4:9 - "Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,"
Ezra 9:3 - "And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied."
Altar rebuilt in Jerusalem. Ezra 3:1-3
Ezra 9:9 - "For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem."
"Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males." - Ezra 8:9
Ezra 3:9 - "Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites."
Ezra 9:2 - "For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass."