Ezra 10:36 names Vaniah, Meremoth, and Eliashib in the record of the men involved in the separation from foreign marriages. That separation involved putting away forbidden foreign marriages along with other heathen practices. This practical reform prepared the people to be taught God's law. This spiritual preparation also fitted the people for the work of rebuilding Jerusalem.
The verse belongs to God's clear counsel about marriage, which is to be carefully and prayerfully studied and then willingly obeyed. With other Scriptures it teaches that marriage must be entered only in the Lord and not with unbelievers, and that the duties of marriage must be studied before entering it. Obeying this counsel saves from years of heart anguish, painful regret, repeated disappointment in marriage, and remorse that is both immediate and irreversible.
Ezra 10:36 names Vaniah, Meremoth, and Eliashib in the record of the men involved in the separation from foreign marriages. That separation involved putting away forbidden foreign marriages along with other heathen practices. This practical reform prepared the people to be taught God's law. This spiritual preparation also fitted the people for the work of rebuilding Jerusalem.
The verse belongs to God's clear counsel about marriage, which is to be carefully and prayerfully studied and then willingly obeyed. With other Scriptures it teaches that marriage must be entered only in the Lord and not with unbelievers, and that the duties of marriage must be studied before entering it. Obeying this counsel saves from years of heart anguish, painful regret, repeated disappointment in marriage, and remorse that is both immediate and irreversible.