◄ Nehemiah 13:23 ►
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Good News Translation
At that time I also discovered that many of the Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

New Revised Standard Version
In those days also I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab;

Contemporary English Version
I discovered that some Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

New American Bible
Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, or Moab.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.

married.

Nehemiah 10:30 And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons.

Ezra 9:2,11,12 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and they have mingled the holy seed with the people of the lands. And the hand of the princes and magistrates hath been first in this transgression. . . .

Ezra 10:10,44 And Esdras the priest stood up, and said to them: You have transgressed, and taken strange wives, to add to the sins of Israel. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:14 Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?

Ashdod.

1 Samuel 5:1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it from the Stone of help into Azotus.

Ammon.

Nehemiah 13:1-3 And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever: . . .

Context
Intermarriage Forbidden
23In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.24And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could not speak the Jews' language, but they spoke according to the language of this and that people.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:11
Observe all things which this day I command thee: I myself will drive out before thy face the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite.

Deuteronomy 7:1
When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:

1 Kings 11:1
And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:

Ezra 9:1
And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me, saying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their abominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites.

Ezra 9:2
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and they have mingled the holy seed with the people of the lands. And the hand of the princes and magistrates hath been first in this transgression.

Nehemiah 4:7
And it came to pass, when Sanaballat, and Tobias, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Azotians heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and the breaches began to be closed, that they were exceedingly angry.

Nehemiah 10:30
And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons.

Nehemiah 13:1
And on that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people: and therein was found written, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not come in to the church of God for ever:

Nehemiah 13:24
And their children spoke half in the speech of Azotus, and could not speak the Jews' language, but they spoke according to the language of this and that people.

Nehemiah 13:27
And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to transgress against our God, and marry strange women:

Nehemiah 13:22
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