“God, What Shall We Say…”
“God, What Shall We Say…”
Blessings folk!
Ezra continues to pray.
He now focuses in on the issue at hand…
Ezr 9:10-12
“Now, our God, what shall we say after this?
For we have forsaken Your commandments,
which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying,
‘The land which you are entering to possess is an unclean land with the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands,
with their abominations which have filled it from end to end and with their impurity.
‘So now do not give your daughters to their sons nor take their daughters to your sons,
and never seek their peace or their prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it as an inheritance to your sons forever.’
The people had forsaken the Lord commandments, particularly these restated in Deu. 7…
Deu 7:1-3
“When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it,
and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you,
and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.
“Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.
The land was unclean due to the people.
The Lord would lead His people to posses the land.
The Lord would deliver the unclean to His people.
The Lord would clear the way.
The Lord’s people would defeat them.
The Lord’s people were to utterly destroy them.
The Lord’s people were to make no covenant with them.
The Lord’s people were to show no favor to them.
The Lord’s people were not to intermarry with them.
Ezra was now confessing that they had not done so.
They had not utterly destroyed.
They had sought peace and prosperity with the people of the land.
They had “played with” the abominations of the people.
They had intermarried.
The Lord had promised them…
- Strength
- Eating the good of the land
- Inheritance forever
They had not.
They did not.
Now, they were in the situation…
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