Divorce: Forced on Those Who had Idolatrous Wives

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel. …

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Thus I purified the priests and Levites from everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.