Nehemiah 13:27 “Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and act…”

Nehemiah 13:27

Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

Geneva Bible 1599

Shall wee then obey vnto you, to doe all this great euil, and to transgresse against our God, euen to marry strange wiues?

Darby Translation

And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?

Young's Literal Translation

And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?'

Bible in Basic English

Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?

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In context

26Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.

28Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

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