Nehemiah 13:23

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

In those days {H3117} also saw {H7200} I Jews {H3064} that had married {H3427} wives {H802} of Ashdod {H796}, of Ammon {H5984}, and of Moab {H4125}:

Also during this time I saw the Judeans who had married women from Ashdod, 'Amon and Mo'av;

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, andof Moab:

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Ezra 9:1 (5 votes)

    ¶ Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, [even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

  • Ezra 9:2 (5 votes)

    For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of [those] lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

  • Nehemiah 10:30 (4 votes)

    And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

  • Ezra 10:10 (4 votes)

    And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.

  • Nehemiah 13:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

  • 2 Corinthians 6:14 (3 votes)

    Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

  • Ezra 10:44 (2 votes)

    All these had taken strange wives: and [some] of them had wives by whom they had children.