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Bedeiah
Bedeiah was one of the Israelites who had married foreign women during the exile and agreed to send them away. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Ezra 10:35.
Why it matters. An Israelite who married a foreign woman during the exile.
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- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Bedeiah
Bedeiah is mentioned in Ezr.10.35 as one of the Israelites who had married foreign women during the Babylonian exile. The context of the passage is Ezra's reform, where he addressed the issue of intermarriage between the returned exiles and the neighboring peoples. This practice was seen as a violation of God's law and a threat to the spiritual purity of the community. Ezra called for the people to confess their sin and to separate themselves from their foreign wives and children. Bedeiah is listed among those who agreed to send away their foreign wives, demonstrating his compliance with Ezra's directive.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Ezra (1 verse)