Then Ezra got up and made the leading priests, Levites, and all Israel take an oath to do what had been said; so they took the oath.(A) Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night.[a] He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.(B)

They circulated a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:6 1 Esdras 9:2, Syr; MT, Vg read he went

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