and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
For then will I turn to the peoples a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.