Deuteronomy 23:6
Don't arrange a peace treaty with them or help them out as long as you live.
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In The King James Version
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
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Cross References
Numbers 24:10Balak got angry with Balaam, and beat his fists together. He told Balaam, “I brought you here to curse my enemies, and now look! You keep on blessing them, doing it three times.
2 Samuel 8:2David also defeated the Moabites. He made them lie down on the ground, and he measured them with a length of cord. He measured two lengths for those to be killed, and one cord length for those to be allowed to live. So he made them subject to him and required them to pay taxes.
2 Samuel 16:12Perhaps the Lord will see how I'm suffering and will pay me back with good for his curses today.”
Nehemiah 13:23Around the same time I realized some Jews had married women from Ashdod, Moab, and Ammon.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 23:2-9
Laws of Separation. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord . 2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord ; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord . 3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord ; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever: 4 Because they met you not with bread and… Read the whole commentary →