Nehemiah 13:27

Unto you, then, shall we hearken, to do all this great wickedness, to act unfaithfully with our God,—by marrying foreign wives?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

In Context

26Was it not, over these things, that Solomon king of Israel sinned—though, among many nations, there was no king such as he, and he was, beloved by his God, and so God gave him to be king over all Israel,—even him, did foreign women, cause to sin.

28And, one of the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite,—therefore I chased him from me.

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Cross References

Ezra 9:14should we again break thy commandments and join ourselves by affinity of marriage with the peoples of these abominations,—wouldst thou not be angry with us, unto a full end, that there should be neither remainder nor deliverance?

Nehemiah 10:31and, if the peoples of the land should be bringing in wares, or any corn on the sabbath day, to sell, we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day,—and that we would remit the seventh year, and the loan of every hand.

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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