Nehemiah 13:23-31

23In those days I also saw that the Jews had 12married women from 3Ashdod, 4Ammon and Moab. 24As for their children, half spoke in the language of Ashdod, and none of them was able to speak the language of Judah, but 5the language of his own people. 25So 6I contended with them and cursed them and 7struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and 8made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take of their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. 269Did not Solomon king of Israel sin regarding these things? 10Yet among the many nations there was no king like him, and 11he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless the foreign women caused even him to sin. 2712Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil 13by acting unfaithfully against our God by 14marrying foreign women?” 28Even one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of 15Sanballat the Horonite, so I drove him away from me. 2916Remember them, O my God, 17because they have defiled the priesthood and the 18covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

3019Thus I purified them from everything foreign and appointed duties for the priests and the Levites, each in his task, 31and I arranged 20for the supply of wood at appointed times and for the first fruits. 21Remember me, O my God, for good.