3 Therefore olet us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and ptheir children, according to the counsel of my lord and of qthose who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done raccording to the Law.
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2 Chronicles 34:31
And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
Ezra 10:44
All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children.
Ezra 9:4
Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.
Deuteronomy 7:2–3
and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,
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