Ezra 9:14 meaning and explanation
shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not become so angry with us as to wipe us out, leaving no remnant or survivor?
Ezra 9:14, Berean Standard Bible
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Ezra, a scribe and priest returned from Babylon, speaks this prayer in Jerusalem after leaders report that returned exiles have intermarried with surrounding peoples. In verse 14 he asks whether the community will repeat the pattern that brought earlier judgment, and whether renewed disobedience would provoke God to destroy the remnant entirely.
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