Nehemiah 13:23
21 Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
22 And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
24 And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
- KJV
- In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
- WEB
- In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
- ASV
- In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
- DARBY
- In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab.
- BLB
- Also in those days I saw the Judeans [who] had settled [with] women—Ashdodite, Ammonite, [and] Moabite.
- ÅB
- På den tid så jeg også de jøder som hadde tatt asdodittiske, ammonittiske og moabittiske kvinner til hustruer;
- OTB
- Videre, i de dager så jeg menn fra Juda som hadde giftet seg med kvinner fra Asjdod, Ammon og Moab.
- B1930
- På den tid så jeg også de jøder som hadde tatt asdodittiske, ammonittiske og moabittiske kvinner til hustruer;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezra 9:1–2
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Read in contextNehemiah 10:30
And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
Read in contextEzra 10:10
And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
Read in contextNehemiah 13:1
On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
Read in context2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Read in contextEzra 10:44
All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
Read in contextNehemiah 4:7
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
Read in contextEzra 9:11–12
Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
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