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1 | Ezra and Family Values? | Ezra 10:3 | Just Read Mark | 118345 | ||
I am a little stunned by the end of Ezra -- it is so concerned with racial purity. I wonder what happened to all of the wives and children? ... and I think of the grief that divorce causes children: to turn to divorce as a societial solution would have such devistating effects for the next generation... Are we to see holiness in this covenant? JRM |
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2 | Ezra and Family Values? | Ezra 10:3 | kalos | 118656 | ||
Ezra 10:10-11 (ESV) And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel. Now then make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives." '...how does divorce in Ezra 10 correlate with the fact that God hates divorce (Mal. 2:16)? Ezra does not establish the norm, but rather deals with a special case in history. It seems to have been decided (Ezra 3:10) on the principle that the lesser wrong (divorce) would be preferable to the greater wrong of the Jewish race being polluted by intermarriage, so that the nation and the messianic line of David would not be ended by being mingled with Gentiles. To solve the problem this way magnifies the mercy of God in that the only other solution would have been to kill all those involved (husband, wives, and children) by stoning, as was done during the first Exodus...(Num. 25:1-9).' __________ MacArthur Study Bible, Word Publishing, 1997, page 639. |
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3 | Ezra and Family Values? | Ezra 10:3 | Just Read Mark | 118698 | ||
Thanks, Kalos, for the excellent note. I feel like it addresse the brutality of the situation, and the hard position the people were in. How to move forward from the brink of destruction? How to solidify the remnant as a faithful community? Interesting comment about stoning. Thanks. JRM |
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