Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “As you have said concerning us, so must we do.
Parallel translations
- KJV Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
- BSB And the whole assembly responded in a loud voice: “Truly we must do as you say!
- NKJV Then all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice, “Yes! As you have said, so we must do.
- NASB Then all the assembly replied with a loud voice, “It is our duty to do exactly as you have said!
- NLT Then the whole assembly raised their voices and answered, “Yes, you are right; we must do as you say!”
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Quick answer
The whole assembly answered with one loud voice that they would do as Ezra said. The people united in agreeing to obey.
Overview
The gathered community responded with unanimous, audible consent to put right their trespass. Their wholehearted agreement showed that the conviction had taken root across the assembly. Such corporate readiness to obey God's word, even at great cost, displays the kind of submission to the Lord that marks a repentant and renewed people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Ezra 10:3–4Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.
- Neh 13:23In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
- Ps 78:37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
- Ps 78:57but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
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