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Bible Verses About Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God: Persons in authority should denounce

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Verses on Persons in authority should denounce

  1. Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place before God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

  2. Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

  3. Now therefore make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”

  4. In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

  5. and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.

  6. I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

  7. Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

  8. Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”