Now King Solomon loved so many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites—
Nehemiah 13:23 - Tree of Life Version 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. |
Now King Solomon loved so many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites—
Then Ezra the kohen stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful and taken foreign wives, increasing the guilt of Israel.
All these had taken foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.
all join their brothers the nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in the Torah of God given through Moses the servant of God, and to keep and do all the mitzvot of Adonai our Lord, along with His ordinances and His statutes.
“Furthermore, we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.
On that day, the scroll of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people. The command was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should enter into the assembly of God forever.
Half of their children spoke the dialect of Ashdod or the language of other peoples, but none of them understood the language of Judah.
Must we then hear about you doing all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful with our God by marrying foreign women?”
So I stationed people in the lower places behind the wall in the exposed places. I stationed the people by families with their swords, spears and bows.
Obey what I am commanding you today. Behold, I am going to drive out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites before you.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
“When Adonai your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out many nations before you—the Hittite and the Girgashite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you—
They married Moabite women—one was named Orpah and the second was named Ruth, and they dwelt there about ten years.
Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God and they brought it from Eben-ezer to Ashdod.