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Today's Bible Translation

Bible translation used in today's episode: Ch. 6 NLT, Ch. 7-8 WEB, Ch. 9-10 CEV NCV

Podcast Introduction

It’s the History Tuesday, and we’ll read Ezra 6-10. I’m calling this episode “Spiritual Integrity.“

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Summary

In chapter 10, Ezra prayed and confessed the sins of Israel before God. Many people joined him in weeping bitterly. Why? The men had married pagan foreign women, disobeying God. 

Shechaniah said they should divorce these wives and send them away, along with the children. This seemed very harsh. 

But divorce was allowed in Israel. God hates divorce, yet permitted it due to hard hearts. Some marriages were prohibited, like those to pagans. So dissolving these forbidden marriages was necessary.  

The children stayed with their mothers. Husbands likely provided support. It took weeks to examine each case. Many wives chose to follow Israel's God and remained. Only a small percentage of men divorced.

The key issue was the wives' pagan beliefs, not their race. God had forbidden intermarriage because He knew it would lead Israel into false worship. 

If Israel had obeyed God's laws from the start, much heartache would have been avoided. God's rules aim to protect us.

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Steve Webb 0:00How could that be the right thing to do?

Steve Webb 0:03This is the Lifespring! One Year Bible coming to you from a drying out Riverside, California and podcasting since 2004. My name is Steve Webb and I'm your OG Godcaster. It's history Tuesday, and we'll read Ezra six through 10. The website is Lifespringmedia.com. and contact information will be at the end of today's show. Before we read, let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we are again grateful for this time together and we ask you to bless us as we read. Teach us today, Lord, in Jesus name, Amen. All right, are you ready? Let's begin.

Steve Webb 0:39Ezra chapter six. So King Darius issued orders that a search be made in the Babylonian archives, which were stored in the treasury, but it was at the fortress of a BATNA in the province of media that a scroll was found. This is what it said, memorandum. In the first year of King Cyrus's reign, a decree was set out concerning the temple of God at Jerusalem. Let the temple be rebuilt on the site where Jews used to offer their sacrifices using the original foundations, its height will be 90 feet and its width will be 90 feet. Every three layers of specially prepared stones will be topped by a layer of timber, all expenses will be paid by the royal treasury. Furthermore, the gold and silver cups which were taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar from the temple of God in Jerusalem, must be returned to Jerusalem and put back where they belong. Let them be taken back to the temple of God. So King Darius sent this message. Now therefore tachiai, governor of the province west of the Euphrates River, and she thought her boss and I and your colleagues and other officials west of the Euphrates River, stay away from there, do not disturb the construction of the temple of God, let it be rebuilt on its original site, and do not hinder the governor of Judah and the elders of the Jews in their work. Moreover,