Nehemiah 10:30

New American Bible - revised edition

join their influential kindred, and with the sanction of a curse take this oath to follow the law of God given through Moses, the servant of God, and to observe carefully all the commandments of the Lord, our Lord, his ordinances and his statutes.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:25

Before him there had been no king who turned to the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, his whole being, and his whole strength, in accord with the entire law of Moses; nor did any king like him arise after him.

2 Kings 23:3

The king stood by the column and made a covenant in the presence of the Lord to follow the Lord and to observe his commandments, statutes, and decrees with his whole heart and soul, and to re-establish the words of the covenant written in this book. And all the people stood by the covenant. Josiah’s Religious Reform.

2 Chronicles 34:31

The king stood by the column and made a covenant in the presence of the Lord to follow the Lord and to observe his commandments, statutes, and decrees with his whole heart and soul, carrying out the words of the covenant written in this book.

Nehemiah 10:1

In view of all this, we are entering into a firm pact, which we are putting into writing. On the sealed document appear the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests.

Nehemiah 13:23

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

Nehemiah 13:25

So I reprimanded and cursed them; I beat some of their men and pulled out their hair; and I adjured them by God: “You shall not marry your daughters to their sons nor accept any of their daughters for your sons or for yourselves!

Nehemiah 13:30

So I cleansed them of all foreign contamination. I established the various functions for the priests and Levites, so that each had an appointed task.

Nehemiah 5:12

They answered: “We will return everything and exact nothing further from them. We will do just what you ask.” Then I called for the priests to administer an oath to them that they would do as they had promised.

Psalm 119:106

I make a solemn vow to observe your righteous judgments.

Exodus 34:16

And when you take their daughters as wives for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves with their gods, they will make your sons do the same.

Deuteronomy 29:11

to enter into the covenant of the Lord, your God, which the Lord, your God, is making with you today, with its curse,

Deuteronomy 7:3

You shall not intermarry with them, neither giving your daughters to their sons nor taking their daughters for your sons.