One connection between the work of Jesus Christ and Ezra 10 concerns the change that has taken place between the old and new covenant. The old covenant required unrepentant spouses to be sent away from Jerusalem; in the new covenant Christians are called to live with their spouses. There is no longer a defilement that comes from living with an unbelieving spouse.
This fact shows us that the blood of Christ has opened a new and living way to God the Father (Hebrews 10:19–25). The time of national Israel and theocracy is over. The bloody ceremonies have come to an end; the civil and ceremonial laws have fallen away. God’s people are no longer identified as those who live in Jerusalem and worship at the temple. Instead, now, through faith in Jesus Christ, Jew and Gentile are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit
(Ephesians 2:22).
1 While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.