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Isshijah, a descendant of Harim, was among those who agreed to put away their foreign wives during Ezra's reforms.
Isshijah was a descendant of Harim who had married a foreign woman and was listed among those who responded to Ezra's call to dissolve these marriages in order to maintain the community's covenant distinctiveness (Ezra 10:31). The mass dissolution of mixed marriages during Ezra's reform remains one of the more controversial episodes of the post-exilic restoration, representing an extreme measure to preserve the community's identity and ritual purity. Isshijah's compliance, recorded in the public register, reflects the community pressure and legal authority behind Ezra's reform movement.