Ezra
Ezra 2:64, 10:1, 8, 12, 14
* Ezra 2:64 THE whole MULTITUDE numbered 42,360,
(call ha qa-hall / pasa de hay ek’klaysia)
Note: Some translations translate qahall and ecclesia as group or number in this verse. See Numbers 22:4
* Ezra 10:1 While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, A very large MULTITUDE of Israelites – men, women, and children alike – gathered around him. The people wept loudly.
(qa-hall robb / ek’klaysia pol-lay, note the tendency of many translations to use the words “large crowd”)
Note: Translated “a very large crowd in some translations”. For other interesting translations of qahall/ecclesia see Numbers 22:4
* Ezra 10:8 Everyone who did not come within three days would thereby forfeit all his property, in keeping with the counsel of the officials and the elders. Furthermore, he himself would be separated FROM THE MULTITUDE of the exiles.
(iba-dell meeq’hall / diastalay-setye apo ek’klaysias)
Note: See 1 kings 8:53 “be separated from”. Qahall/ecclesia’s unspiritual nature, see Genesis 49:6
Ezra 10:12 THE whole MULTITUDE replied in a loud voice: “We will do just as you have said!
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Ezra 10:14 Let our leaders take steps on behalf OF THE whole MULTITUDE. 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 burning anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter.”
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