All these had taken strange wives: and [some] of them had wives by whom they had children.
Ver. 44. And some of them had wives by whom they had children] Who yet for all that were put away together with their children, Ezra 10:3. The Hebrew hath it thus, and there were of them women, and they had put forth sons, or exposed their sons to do as they might, or to be disposed of by the judges; as that good woman who told Bonner, that if he burnt her, she hoped he would keep Faith, Hope, and Charity (those were the names of her three daughters). No, by my truth will not I, quoth the bishop; I will meddle with none of them (Acts and Mon.).