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Nehemiah 13:23

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Ashdod;   Divorce;   Moabites;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ashdod;   Moabites;   Nehemiah;   Solomon;   The Topic Concordance - Marriage;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Ammonites, the;   Divorce;   Marriage;   Moabites;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Philistines;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Foreigner;   Malachi;   Samaria, samaritans;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hittites;   Malachi;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ashdod;   Giants;   Malachi;   Nehemiah;   Noah;   Philistia;   Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ashdod;   Malachi;   Nehemiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon, Ammonites;   Ashdod;   Marriage;   Nehemiah;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Marriage;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ammon, Ammonites, Children of Ammon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Nehemiah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Philis'tines;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Samaritans;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ashdod;   Genealogy;   Languages of the Old Testament;   Proselyte;   Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ammonites;   Ashdod;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ammon, Ammonites;   Ashdod;   Ezra, Book of;   Gentile;   Intermarriage;   Marriage;   Moab;   Ruth, Book of;   Zechariah, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Hebrew Names Version
In those days also saw I the Yehudim who had married women of Ashdod, of `Ammon, [and] of Mo'av:
King James Version
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
English Standard Version
In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
New Century Version
In those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
New English Translation
Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from 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.
World English Bible
In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
Geneva Bible (1587)
In those dayes also I saw Iewes that married wiues of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab.
Legacy Standard Bible
In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Berean Standard Bible
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Contemporary English Version
I discovered that some Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Complete Jewish Bible
Also during this time I saw the Judeans who had married women from Ashdod, ‘Amon and Mo'av;
Darby Translation
In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab.
Easy-to-Read Version
In those days I also noticed that some Jewish men had married women from the countries of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
George Lamsa Translation
In those days I also saw Jews who had married foreign wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
Good News Translation
At that time I also discovered that many of the Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Lexham English Bible
Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Literal Translation
In those days I also saw Jews who had dwelt with women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And at the same tyme sawe I Iewes, that maried wyues of Asdod, 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:
Bible in Basic English
And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In those dayes also sawe I Iewes that maried wyues of Asdod, of Ammon, and of Moab,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
King James Version (1611)
In those dayes also sawe I Iewes that had maried wiues of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
English Revised Version
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also in tho daies Y siy Jewys weddinge wyues, wymmen of Azotus, and wymmen of Amonytis, and wymmen of Moabitis.
Update Bible Version
In those days also I saw the Jews that 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:
New King James Version
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of 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.
New Life Bible
In those days I saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
New Revised Standard
In those days also I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Moreover, in these days, saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab;
Douay-Rheims Bible
In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.
Revised Standard Version
In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab;
Young's Literal Translation
Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews [who] have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.
THE MESSAGE
Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Half the children couldn't even speak the language of Judah; all they knew was the language of Ashdod or some other tongue. So I took those men to task, gave them a piece of my mind, even slapped some of them and jerked them by the hair. I made them swear to God: "Don't marry your daughters to their sons; and don't let their daughters marry your sons—and don't you yourselves marry them! Didn't Solomon the king of Israel sin because of women just like these? Even though there was no king quite like him, and God loved him and made him king over all Israel, foreign women were his downfall. Do you call this obedience—engaging in this extensive evil, showing yourselves faithless to God by marrying foreign wives?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.

Contextual Overview

23In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.24As for their children, half spoke in the language of Ashdod, and none of them knew how to speak [Hebrew] the language of Judah, but only the language of his own people. 25So I contended with them and cursed them and struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, "You shall not give your daughters [in marriage] to their sons, nor take [any of] their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. 26"Did not Solomon king of Israel sin [greatly against God] regarding these things? Yet among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless the foreign women caused even him to sin [by turning to other gods and so, judged by God, he lost his kingdom]. 27"Do we then hear about you that you have done all this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign (pagan) women?" 28One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, so I chased him away from me. 29O my God, remember them, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites. 30Thus I cleansed and purified them from everything foreign (pagan), and I defined the duties of the priests and Levites, each one in his task; 31and I provided for the wood offering at appointed times and for the first fruits. O my God, [please] remember me for good [and imprint me on Your heart].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

married: Heb. made to dwell with them, Nehemiah 10:30, Ezra 9:2, Ezra 9:11, Ezra 9:12, Ezra 10:10, Ezra 10:44, 2 Corinthians 6:14

Ashdod: 1 Samuel 5:1

Ammon: Nehemiah 13:1-3

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:38 - children Exodus 34:16 - General Leviticus 21:15 - profane Deuteronomy 7:3 - General Deuteronomy 23:3 - Ammonite Deuteronomy 23:6 - Thou shalt Joshua 11:22 - Ashdod Joshua 15:46 - near Joshua 23:12 - shall make Judges 3:6 - General 1 Kings 11:1 - loved 1 Kings 16:31 - took to wife 2 Chronicles 22:3 - his mother Ezra 9:14 - join in Ezra 10:12 - so must we do Nehemiah 4:7 - Ashdodites Proverbs 28:4 - but Isaiah 2:6 - and they Jeremiah 25:20 - remnant Hosea 5:7 - begotten Hosea 7:8 - he hath Malachi 2:11 - and hath 2 Corinthians 11:29 - and I burn

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In those days also I saw Jews that married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab. Ashdod, or Azotus, as it is called in Acts 8:40, was one of the five cities of the Philistines; which, though none of the seven nations with whom marriage was forbid, yet it was very unfit and improper to marry with them, Judges 14:3. This place was a mart of the Arabians h, where they sold their goods, to which the Jews might resort, and thereby be ensnared into such marriages; and which with the Ammonites and Moabites were unlawful, Nehemiah 13:1.

h Mela de Situ Orbis, l. 1. c. 10.


 
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