Maknadbai was an Israelite mentioned in the book of Ezra who was among those who had taken foreign (non-Israelite) wives during the time of exile. He was one of those who agreed to divorce his foreign wife as part of Ezra's reforms to restore the people's covenant faithfulness to God.
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Listed among those with foreign wives
Maknadbai is mentioned in the list of Israelites who had taken foreign wives in violation of God's law, during Ezra's time after returning from exile in Babylon.
Ezra led a comprehensive reform requiring Israelite men who had married women from foreign nations to divorce them in order to preserve the people's purity and covenant faithfulness.
1While Ezra was praying and making this confession, weeping and lying prostrate before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israel gathered around him—men, women, and children—for the people were weeping bitterly.
2Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, spoke up and said to Ezra: "We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the peoples of the land. Yet even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
3So let us now make a covenant with our God to send away all these women along with their children, according to the counsel of the Lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the Law.
11Now then, make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do his will: separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from your foreign wives."
16So the returned exiles did as had been proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were heads of families, each designated by name according to his father's house. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter,