Nehemiah 13:23

Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews [who] have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

22And I command to the Levites that they be cleansed, and coming in, keeping the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Also, this, remember for me, O my God, and have pity on me, according to the abundance of Your kindness.

24And of their sons, half are speaking Ashdoditish—and are not knowing to speak Jewish—and according to the language of people and people.

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Cross References

Ruth 1:4and they take to them wives, Moabitesses: the name of the first [is] Orpah, and the name of the second Ruth; and they dwell there about ten years.

Ezra 9:1And at the completion of these things, the heads have drawn near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not been separated from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, even the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite,

Ezra 10:10And Ezra the priest rises and says to them, “You have trespassed, and you settle strange women, to add to the guilt of Israel;

Nehemiah 4:7And it comes to pass, when Sanballat has heard, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, that lengthening has gone up to the walls of Jerusalem, that the breeches have begun to be stopped, then it is very displeasing to them,

Nehemiah 10:31and the peoples of the land who are bringing in the wares and any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we do not receive of them on the Sabbath, and on a holy day, and we leave the seventh year, and usury on every hand.

2 Corinthians 6:14Do not become yoked with others—unbelievers, for what partaking [is there] to righteousness and lawlessness?

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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