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In original version of Ezra, Jonathan and Jahzeiah alone reject the plan to divorce foreign wives. The Greek Septuagint changes this so they agree with Ezra instead, and the only dissent in the narrative disappears.
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Ezra 10:15
Hebrew Bible
14 Let our leaders take steps on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter.” 15 Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah were against this, assisted by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite. 16 So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out by name men who were leaders in their family groups. They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,
LXX Ezra 10:15
Septuagint
14 Now let our rulers stand for all those in our cities, whoever dwelled with foreign wives, let them come at the appointed times from the gathering, and with them the elders of city by city, and judges, in order to turn away the wrath of the anger of our God from us concerning this matter.” 15 But Jonathan, son of Asahel, and Jahzeiah, son of Helkeia, are with me concerning this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai, the Levites, are supporting them. 16 And the children of the exile did so. And Ezra the priest and the men who were rulers of the paternal families were set apart by house, and all by name, because they turned on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.
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Notes and References
... This verse is separated from the foregoing by a petuḥā. For the sake of completeness, the narrator reports a small opposition to the proposal just described. An alternative solution is not mentioned. Jonathan, the son of Asael, is unknown outside this passage. The name Jonathan is very common in ancient Israel. In II Samuel 2-3 a cousin of David bears the name Asael. The name yaḥzeyāh, ‘Jahzeja’, occurs only in Ezra 10:15. The collocation āmad ‘al has the specific meaning ‘rise against’ (Williamson, see also Leviticus 19:16; Judges 6:13; I Chronicles 21:1; II Chronicles 20:23; 26:18; Daniel 8:25). ...
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