Nehemiah 13:30

So I purged them from all foreign connection, and established courses for the priests and the Levites, every man according to his work.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;

In Context

29Remember them, O God, for their false connection with the priesthood, and the breaking the covenant of the priesthood, and for defiling the Levites.

31And the offering of the wood-bearers was at certain set times, and in the times of the first-fruits. Remember me, O our God, for good.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 23:1And David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel in his stead.

Nehemiah 10:30and that we will not, they said,give our daughters to the people of the land, nor will we take their daughters to our sons.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 13:24-31

The Dismissal of Strange Wives. ( b. c. 434.) 23 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: 24 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. 25 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 unto your sons, or for… Read the whole commentary →

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