All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
All of these men had married foreign women, and some of them even had children with their foreign wives.
This verse describes how some Israelite men had married women from other nations and started families with them, which was against God's commands for His people.
📚 Historical Context
During the time of Ezra, the Jewish people had returned from exile in Babylon and were working to rebuild their community in Jerusalem. They faced a crisis because many men had married foreign women, which was seen as a violation of God's laws in the Torah, as it could lead to the adoption of pagan practices and dilute their religious identity. As a result, Ezra led a reform to address this by requiring the dissolution of these marriages to restore faithfulness to God.
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