Nehemiah 13:23

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In those days I also noticed that some Jewish men had married women from the countries of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:30

“We promise not to let our daughters marry the people living around us. And we promise not to let our sons marry their daughters.

Ezra 10:10

Then Ezra the priest stood and said to them, “You people have not been faithful to God. You have married foreign women. You have made Israel more guilty by doing that.

2 Corinthians 6:14

You are not the same as those who don’t believe. So don’t join yourselves to them. Good and evil don’t belong together. Light and darkness cannot share the same room.

Nehemiah 13:1

On that day the Book of Moses was read out loud, so that all the people could hear. They found this law written there: No Ammonite and no Moabite would be permitted to join in the meetings with God.

Ezra 10:44

All these men married foreign women, and some of them had children with these wives.

Nehemiah 4:7

But Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the men from Ashdod were very angry. They heard that the people continued working on the walls of Jerusalem. They heard the people were repairing the holes in the wall.

1 Samuel 5:1

The Philistines carried God’s Holy Box, from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

Exodus 34:11

Obey what I command you today, and I will force your enemies to leave your land. I will force out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Deuteronomy 7:1

“The Lord your God will lead you into the land that you are entering to take for your own. He will force out many nations for you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—seven nations greater and more powerful than you.

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many foreign women, including the daughter of Pharaoh and women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and the Hittites.

Nehemiah 13:24

And half of the children from those marriages didn’t know how to speak the Jewish language. They spoke the language of Ashdod, Ammon, or Moab.

Nehemiah 13:27

And now, we hear that you also are doing this terrible sin. You are not being true to our God. You are marrying foreign women.”

Ruth 1:4

Her sons married women from the country of Moab. One wife’s name was Orpah, and the other wife’s name was Ruth. They lived in Moab about ten years;

Nehemiah 10:31

“We promise not to work on the Sabbath day. If the people living around us bring grain or other things to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy them on that special day or on any other festival. Every seventh year, we will not plant or work the land. And every seventh year, we will cancel every debt that other people owe to us.