Ezra 3:9-10
3:9 So Jeshua appointed both his sons and his relatives, 1 Kadmiel and his sons (the sons of Yehudah 2 ), to take charge of the workers in the temple of God, along with the sons of Henadad, their sons, and their relatives 3 the Levites.
3:10 When the builders established the Lord’s temple, the priests, ceremonially attired and with their clarions, 4 and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with their cymbals, stood to praise the Lord according to the instructions left by 5 King David of Israel. 6
Ezra 9:2
9:2 Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race 7 has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all of this!”
Ezra 9:11
9:11 which you commanded us through your servants the prophets with these words: 8 ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the impurities of the local residents! 9 With their abominations they have filled it from one end to the other with their filthiness.
1 tn Heb “brothers.”
2 sn The name יְהוּדָה (Yehudah; cf. KJV, ASV, NASB “Judah”) is probably a variant of Hodaviah (see Ezra 2:40; cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
3 tn Heb “brothers.”
4 sn This was a long, straight, metallic instrument used for signal calls, rather than the traditional ram’s horn (both instruments are typically translated “trumpet” by English versions).
5 tn Heb “according to the hands of.”
6 sn See Ps 107:1; 118:1, 29; 136:1. Cf. 2 Chr 5:13; 7:3; 20:21.
7 tn Heb “the holy seed,” referring to the Israelites as God’s holy people.
8 tn Heb “through your servants the prophets, saying.”
9 tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.”