Then Ezra withdrew (A)from before the house of God and went to the (B)chamber of (C)Jehohanan the son of (D)Eliashib, where he spent the night,[a] neither (E)eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles. And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem, and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 10:6 Probable reading; Hebrew where he went

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