Nehemiah 13
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Nehemiah 13:23-28

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 knew how to speak the language of Judah, but 5only the language of his own people.

25So 6I quarreled 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 any of their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

269Did Solomon the king of Israel not 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; yet the foreign women caused even him to sin.

27Has it not then been reported about you that you have committed all this great evil 12by acting unfaithfully against our God, by 13marrying foreign women?”

28Even one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, became a son-in-law of 14Sanballat the Horonite, so I chased him away from me.

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Notes

  1. 1. Nehemiah 13:23 Lit given dwelling to ↩
  2. 2. Nehemiah 13:23 Ex 34:11-16; Deut 7:1-5; Ezra 9:2; Neh 10:30 ↩
  3. 3. Nehemiah 13:23 Neh 4:7 ↩
  4. 4. Nehemiah 13:23 Ezra 9:1; Neh 13:1 ↩
  5. 5. Nehemiah 13:24 Lit according to the tongue of people and people ↩
  6. 6. Nehemiah 13:25 Neh 13:11, 17 ↩
  7. 7. Nehemiah 13:25 Deut 25:2 ↩
  8. 8. Nehemiah 13:25 Neh 10:29, 30 ↩
  9. 9. Nehemiah 13:26 1 Kin 11:1 ↩
  10. 10. Nehemiah 13:26 1 Kin 3:13; 2 Chr 1:12 ↩
  11. 11. Nehemiah 13:26 2 Sam 12:24, 25 ↩
  12. 12. Nehemiah 13:27 Ezra 10:2; Neh 13:23 ↩
  13. 13. Nehemiah 13:27 Lit giving dwelling to ↩
  14. 14. Nehemiah 13:28 Neh 2:10, 19; 4:1 ↩

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