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Bible study · Ezra 10:1-44

Ezra 10: We have trespassed

Read Ezra 10:1-44 before you meet.

In a few lines

Ezra 10 opens with a people weeping before God's house (10:1) and a man who says "We have trespassed" and "Yet now there is hope for Israel" in one breath (10:2). Its list begins with the priests (10:18), and every family it names "Of Israel" is named in Ezra 2's list of those who came up out of the captivity.

The verse to carry

“Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.”

Ezra 10:1

To talk about

  1. 1. Shecaniah says "We have trespassed against our God" and, in the same breath, "Yet now there is hope for Israel" (10:2). Why is it hard to say both of those about yourself at once?

  2. 2. Ezra "didn’t eat bread or drink water, for he mourned because of the trespass of the exiles" (10:6). What does it look like to grieve over wrong done among God's people, and not only over your own?

  3. 3. Ezra says, "make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers" (10:11). What's the difference between feeling bad about something and making confession to the LORD?

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