Person Old Testament
Maaseiah
Maaseiah, an Israelite, was among those who had married foreign women during the time of Ezra. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Ezra 10:21.
Why it matters. Israelite who married a foreign woman during Ezra's time
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- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Maaseiah
Maaseiah was an Israelite who was found to have married a foreign woman during the time of Ezra (Ezr.10.21). After the return of the Jewish exiles from Babylon, Ezra led a religious reform to address the issue of intermarriage with foreign women, which was seen as a violation of God's commandments (Ezr.9-10). Maaseiah is listed among the descendants of Harim who had taken foreign wives (Ezr.10.21). As part of the reform, those who had married foreign women were required to separate from their wives and children (Ezr.10.44). This event highlights the importance of maintaining religious and ethnic purity within the Jewish community during the post-exilic period.
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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Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Ezra (1 verse)