Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab. New Living Translation About the same time I realized that some of the men of Judah had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. English Standard Version In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Berean Standard Bible In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. King James Bible In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: New King James Version In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. New American Standard Bible In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. NASB 1995 In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab. NASB 1977 In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Legacy Standard Bible In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Amplified Bible In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Christian Standard Bible In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Holman Christian Standard Bible In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. American Standard Version In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: Contemporary English Version I discovered that some Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. English Revised Version In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: GOD'S WORD® Translation In those days I saw some Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Good News Translation At that time I also discovered that many of the Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. International Standard Version At that time I also noticed that Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Majority Standard Bible In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. NET Bible Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. New Heart English Bible In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: Webster's Bible Translation In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: World English Bible In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab; Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAlso, in those days, I have seen the Jews [who] have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab. Young's Literal Translation Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews who have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab. Smith's Literal Translation Also in those days I saw Jews who caused to dwell women, Ashdodites, Ammonites, Moabites: Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleIn those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab. Catholic Public Domain Version But also in those days, I saw some Jews taking wives from the Ashdodites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites. New American Bible Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, or Moab. New Revised Standard Version In those days also I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab; Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleIn those days I also saw Jews who had married foreign wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Also in those days I saw Judeans who had married foreign women, Ashdodite women, also Ammonite women and Moabite women. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab; Brenton Septuagint Translation And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Intermarriage Forbidden23In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.… Cross References Ezra 9:1-2 After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites. / Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!” Deuteronomy 7:3-4 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, / because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you. 1 Kings 11:1-2 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. / These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love. Malachi 2:11 Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god. Exodus 34:15-16 Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices. / And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same. Judges 3:5-6 Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. / And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods. 2 Corinthians 6:14-17 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? / What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? / What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” ... 1 Corinthians 7:39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord. Joshua 23:12-13 For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, / know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you. 1 Kings 16:31 And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal. 2 Kings 17:24 Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns. 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. / I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. / But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. 2 Chronicles 21:6 And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD. 2 Chronicles 36:14 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem. Matthew 19:4-6 Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ / and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? / So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.” Treasury of Scripture In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: married. Nehemiah 10:30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons: Ezra 9:2,11,12 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… Ezra 10:10,44 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel… Ashdod. 1 Samuel 5:1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. Ammon. Nehemiah 13:1-3 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; … Jump to Previous Ammon Ashdod Jews Judah Married Moab Moreover Settled Wives WomenJump to Next Ammon Ashdod Jews Judah Married Moab Moreover Settled Wives WomenNehemiah 13 1. Upon the reading of the law, separation is made from the mixed multitude.4. Nehemiah, at his return, causes the chambers to be cleansed. 10. He reforms the offices in the house of God; 15. the violation of the Sabbath; 23. and the marriages with the strange wives. In those days This phrase sets the historical context, referring to the period when Nehemiah was actively involved in reforming the community of returned exiles in Jerusalem. It highlights a specific time of spiritual and social challenges. Historically, this was after the Babylonian exile, during the Persian period, when the Jewish community was re-establishing itself. Nehemiah's leadership was crucial in addressing issues that threatened the purity and identity of the Jewish people. I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab (23) Saw I Jews.--The punishment shows that these were exceptional cases; but the transgression was of the most flagrant kind (see Nehemiah 13:1). Verse 23. - In those days. i.e. "About this same time." Compare ver. 15. Saw I Jews. Rather, "looked I after the Jews." There is a reference to the first three verses of the present chapter, which had introduced the subject of the mixed marriages. Nehemiah wishes to put on record the part which he had taken in the matter, and begins by observing that it had not escaped him - he had had his eye on the transgressors, and had noted their misconduct, and the evils whereto it led. Wives of Ashdod. Philistine wives, of a race always hostile to Israel, and natives of a city which had recently taken part with Nehemiah's bitter enemies (Nehemiah 4:7). Of Ammon and of Moab. Compare Ezra 9:1, and Nehemiah 13:1.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew In thoseהָהֵ֗ם (hā·hêm) Article | Pronoun - third person masculine plural Strong's 1992: They days בַּיָּמִ֣ים (bay·yā·mîm) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 3117: A day I also גַּ֣ם ׀ (gam) Conjunction Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and saw רָאִ֤יתִי (rā·’î·ṯî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 7200: To see Jews הַיְּהוּדִים֙ (hay·yə·hū·ḏîm) Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural Strong's 3064: Jews -- Jewish who had married הֹשִׁ֗יבוּ (hō·šî·ḇū) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry women נָשִׁים֙ (nā·šîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female from Ashdod, אַשְׁדֳּדִיּ֔וֹת (’aš·do·ḏî·yō·wṯ) Noun - proper - feminine plural Strong's 796: Ashdodites -- an inhabitant of Ashdod Ammon, עַמֳּנִיּ֖וֹת (‘am·mo·nî·yō·wṯ) Noun - proper - feminine plural Strong's 5984: Ammonite -- descendants of Ammon and Moab. מוֹאֲבִיּֽוֹת׃ (mō·w·’ă·ḇî·yō·wṯ) Noun - proper - feminine plural Strong's 4125: Moabite -- descendant of Moab Links Nehemiah 13:23 NIVNehemiah 13:23 NLT Nehemiah 13:23 ESV Nehemiah 13:23 NASB Nehemiah 13:23 KJV Nehemiah 13:23 BibleApps.com Nehemiah 13:23 Biblia Paralela Nehemiah 13:23 Chinese Bible Nehemiah 13:23 French Bible Nehemiah 13:23 Catholic Bible OT History: Nehemiah 13:23 In those days also saw (Neh Ne) |
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