Nehemiah 13:23

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

The LORD did not want the Israelites to worship foreign gods, so he had warned them not to marry anyone who was not from Israel. Solomon loved his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt. But he also loved some women from Moab, Ammon, and Edom, and others from Sidon and the land of the Hittites.

Ezra 10:10

Ezra the priest stood up and said: You have broken God's Law by marrying foreign women, and you have made the whole nation guilty!

Ezra 10:44

These men divorced their foreign wives, then sent them and their children away.

Nehemiah 10:30

We won't let our sons and daughters marry foreigners.

Nehemiah 10:31

We won't buy goods or grain on the Sabbath or on any other sacred day, not even from foreigners. Every seven years we will let our fields rest, and we will cancel all debts.

Nehemiah 13:1

On that day when the Law of Moses was read aloud to everyone, it was discovered that Ammonites and Moabites were forbidden to belong to the people of God.

Nehemiah 13:24

About half of their children could not speak Hebrew—they spoke only the language of Ashdod or some other foreign language.

Nehemiah 13:27

So we will obey you and not rebel against our God by marrying foreign women.

Nehemiah 4:7

But Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the people from the city of Ashdod saw the walls going up and the holes being repaired. So they became angry

Exodus 34:11

I will force out the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, but you must do what I command you today.

2 Corinthians 6:14

Stay away from people who are not followers of the Lord! Can someone who is good get along with someone who is evil? Are light and darkness the same?

Deuteronomy 7:1

People of Israel, the LORD your God will help you take the land of the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. These seven nations have more people and are stronger than Israel, but when you attack them,

Ruth 1:4

Later, Naomi's sons married Moabite women. One was named Orpah and the other Ruth. About ten years later,

1 Samuel 5:1

The Philistines took the sacred chest from near Ebenezer to the town of Ashdod.