Ezra 10:42 stands as a list of names within the detailed account of the people's reform. The names are those of men associated with intermarriage with heathen or foreign women. That reform involved separating from forbidden alliances and heathen practices before being taught God's law. It belonged to Ezra's effort to separate the people from the heathen and restore them to a spiritual condition fit for the rebuilding of Jerusalem. The verse records names rather than expressing a promise.
Ezra 10:42 stands as a list of names within the detailed account of the people's reform. The names are those of men associated with intermarriage with heathen or foreign women. That reform involved separating from forbidden alliances and heathen practices before being taught God's law. It belonged to Ezra's effort to separate the people from the heathen and restore them to a spiritual condition fit for the rebuilding of Jerusalem. The verse records names rather than expressing a promise.