Ezra 10:6-9

English Standard Version

⁶ Then Ezra withdrew ^(A)from before the house of God and went to the ^(B)chamber of ^(C)Jehohanan the son of ^(D)Eliashib, where he spent the night,^[a] neither ^(E)eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles. ⁷ And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem, ⁸ and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.

⁹ Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the ^(F)heavy rain.