King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women
Nehemiah 13:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In those days also I saw Jews who had married wives from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. American Standard Version (1901) In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: Common English Bible Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Catholic Public Domain Version But also in those days, I saw some Jews taking wives from the Ashdodites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In those days also I saw Jews that married wives: women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab. |
King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women
Then the priest Ezra stood up and said to them, ‘You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to Israel’s guilt.
All of these had married foreign women, and some of the wives had given birth to children.
We will not give our daughters in marriage to the surrounding peoples and will not take their daughters as wives for our sons.
When the surrounding peoples bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day. We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year and will cancel every debt.
At that time the book of Moses was read publicly to the people. The command was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples but could not speak Hebrew. ,
Why then should we hear about you doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women? ’
When Sanballat, Tobiah, and the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they became furious.
Observe what I command you today. I am going to drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hethites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Do not be yoked together with those who do not believe. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
‘When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, and he drives out many nations before you #– #the Hethites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you #– #
Her sons took Moabite women as their wives: one was named Orpah and the second was named Ruth. After they lived in Moab for about ten years,
After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,