Nehemiah 13:24

New Century Version

Half their children were speaking the language of Ashdod or some other place, and they couldn’t speak the language of Judah.

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:23

In those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Nehemiah 13:25

I argued with those people, put curses on them, hit some of them, and pulled out their hair. I forced them to make a promise to God, saying, “Do not let your daughters marry the sons of foreigners, and do not take the daughters of foreigners as wives for your sons or yourselves.

Zephaniah 3:9

“Then I will give the people of all nations pure speech so that all of them will speak the name of the Lord and worship me together.