बेदेयाह

Bedeiah was one of the Israelites from the family of Bani who had married a foreign woman during the exile and agreed to send her away in response to Ezra's call for covenant faithfulness (Ezra 10:35). His compliance with Ezra's difficult reform illustrates the painful personal cost of the community's effort to preserve its covenantal distinctiveness after returning to the land from Babylon.