Ezra 3:3
3:3 They established the altar on its foundations, even though they were in terror of the local peoples, 1 and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and the evening offerings.
Ezra 3:13
3:13 People were unable to tell the difference between the sound of joyous shouting and the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people were shouting so loudly 2 that the sound was heard a long way off.
Ezra 9:14
9:14 Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?
Ezra 10:2
10:2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, 3 addressed Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying 4 foreign women from the local peoples. 5 Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard. 6
1 tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”
2 tn Heb “a great shout.”
3 tc The translation reads with the Qere, many medieval Hebrew MSS, the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate עֵילָם (’elam, “Elam”) rather than the reading עוֹלָם (’olam, “eternity”) found in the MT.
4 tn Heb “in that we have given a dwelling to.” So also in vv. 14, 17, 18.
5 tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”
6 tn Heb “upon this.”