Ezra 9 - Ezra Confronts Intermarriage

The newcomers to the land find that they have been more faithful to God than the residents of the Holy Land.  The people have already started to falter in their faithfulness to God, and have begun to adopt the ways of pagan cults that surrounded them.  This led to intermarriage, and Ezra is stunned by the constant and never ending backsliding of God's people.