Nehemiah 13:23

Around the same time I realized some Jews had married women from Ashdod, Moab, and Ammon.

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In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

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22Then I told the Levites to purify themselves and to come and guard the gates to keep the Sabbath day holy. My God, please also remember me for doing this, and be merciful to me because of your trustworthy love.

24Half their children could only speak the language of Ashdod or that of another people, and didn't know how to speak the language of Judah.

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Cross References

Ruth 1:4The sons married Moabite women. One was called Orpah, the other was called Ruth. After about ten years,

Ezra 9:1Some time later after all this had happened, the leaders came and told me, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the people around us whose disgusting religious practices are similar to those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

Ezra 10:10Ezra the priest stood up and told them, “You have committed sin by marrying foreign women, making Israel's guilt even worse.

Nehemiah 4:7When Sanballat and Tobiah, and the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being filled in, they were furious.

Nehemiah 10:31When the people of the land bring goods and all kinds of food to sell on the holy Sabbath, we will not buy anything from them on the Sabbath or on other holy days. Every seventh year we will leave the land to rest, and we will cancel all debts.

2 Corinthians 6:14Don't join together with people who don't believe—for what connection does goodness have with wickedness? What do light and darkness have in common?

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 13:16-23

The Charge Respecting the Sabbath. ( b. c. 434.) 15 In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. 16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. 17 Then I… Read the whole commentary →

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