Strange Wives, Idolatrous Wives

Ezra 10
10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
11 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
44 All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
How painful this, God's, requirement must have been for at least some of the affected families. You can almost see the painful look on the men's faces as they listen to the nightime cries of their idolatrous wives and their children.

Thy will be done.

This is an important type and lesson for at least some of us.....poor sinners. How painful it can be to separate ones self from modern day idolatries.

This is the painful and important lesson for the day.....