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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 Let now our rulers stand for all the congregation, and for all those in our cities who have taken strange wives, let them come at appointed times, and with them elders from every city, and judges, to turn away the fierce wrath of our God from us concerning this matter. 15 Only Jonathan the son of Asael, and Jazias the son of Thecoe were with me concerning this; and Mesollam, and Sabbathai the Levite helped them. 16 And the children of the captivity did thus: and Esdras the priest, and heads of families according to their house were separated, and all by their names, for they returned in the first day of the tenth month to search out 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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