Nehemiah 13:23 “In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon…”

Nehemiah 13:23

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

In those days also saw I 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;

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

In those dayes also I saw Iewes that married wiues of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab.

Darby Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:

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Cross references

“married”

Nehemiah 10:30 Ezra 10:10 2 Corinthians 6:14 Ezra 10:44 Ezra 9:2 Ezra 9:11

Nehemiah 10:30 · BSB

We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.

Ezra 10:10 · BSB

Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.

2 Corinthians 6:14 · BSB

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Ezra 10:44 · BSB

All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

Ezra 9:2 · BSB

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 thi…

Ezra 9:11 · BSB

that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.

“Ashdod”

1 Samuel 5:1

1 Samuel 5:1 · BSB

After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,

Also

Ezra 9:1–2 Nehemiah 13:1 Nehemiah 4:7

Ezra 9:1–2 · BSB

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 ar…

Nehemiah 13:1 · BSB

At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,

Nehemiah 4:7 · BSB

When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according to Your abundant loving devotion.

24Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.

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