Nehemiah 13:27

New Living Translation

How could you even think of committing this sinful deed and acting unfaithfully toward God by marrying foreign women?"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Why then should we hear about you doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

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

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

English Standard Version
Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?"

New Century Version
And now you are not obedient when you do this evil thing. You are unfaithful to our God when you marry foreign wives."

New English Translation
Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?"

Amplified Bible
"Do we then hear about you that you have done all this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign (pagan) women?"

New American Standard Bible
"Has it not then been reported about you that you have committed all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God, by marrying foreign women?"

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Shall wee then obey vnto you, to doe all this great euil, and to transgresse against our God, euen to marry strange wiues?

Legacy Standard Bible
Do we then hear about you that you have done all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?"

Berean Standard Bible
Why should we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?"

Contemporary English Version
So we will obey you and not rebel against our God by marrying foreign women.

Complete Jewish Bible
Are we to give in to you and let you continue in this very great evil, breaking faith with our God by marrying foreign women?"

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

Easy-to-Read Version
And now, we hear that you also are doing this terrible sin. You are not being true to our God. You are marrying foreign women."

George Lamsa Translation
And this thing was reported to you, and yet you committed this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives.

Good News Translation
Are we then to follow your example and disobey our God by marrying foreign women?"

Lexham English Bible
Should we listen to you all and do this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?"

Literal Translation
Shall we then listen to you, to do this great evil, to sin against our God in living with 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?

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?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Shall we then obey vnto you to do al this great euyll, and to transgresse against our God, and marie straunge wyues?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?'

King James Version (1611)
Shall wee then hearken vnto you, to doe all this great euill, to transgresse against our God, in marrying strange wiues?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So we will not hearken to you to do all this evil, to break covenant with our God, —to marry strange wives.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether also we vnobedient schulden do al this grete yuel, that we trespasse ayens `oure Lord God, and wedde alien wyues?

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?

New King James Version
Should we then hear of your doing all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?"

New Life Bible
Should we hear now that you also are sinning in the same way by not being faithful to our God, by marrying women from other nations?"

New Revised Standard
Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Unto you, then, shall we hearken, to do all this great wickedness, to act unfaithfully with our God, - by marrying foreign wives?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to transgress against our God, and marry strange women:

Revised Standard Version
Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?"

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?'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?"

Contextual Overview

²³ About the same time I realized that some of the men of Judah had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. ²⁴ Furthermore, half their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of some other people and could not speak the language of Judah at all. ²⁵ So I confronted them and called down curses on them. I beat some of them and pulled out their hair. I made them swear in the name of God that they would not let their children intermarry with the pagan people of the land. ²⁶ "Wasn't this exactly what led King Solomon of Israel into sin?" I demanded. "There was no king from any nation who could compare to him, and God loved him and made him king over all Israel. But even he was led into sin by his foreign wives. ²⁷ How could you even think of committing this sinful deed and acting unfaithfully toward God by marrying foreign women?" ²⁸ One of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest had married a daughter of Sanballat the Horonite, so I banished him from my presence. ²⁹ Remember them, O my God, for they have defiled the priesthood and the solemn vows of the priests and Levites. ³⁰ So I purged out everything foreign and assigned tasks to the priests and Levites, making certain that each knew his work. ³¹ I also made sure that the supply of wood for the altar and the first portions of the harvest were brought at the proper times. Remember this in my favor, O my God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Shall we then: 1 Samuel 30:24

to transgress: Ezra 10:2

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 11:4 - his wives Proverbs 2:16 - deliver

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil,.... To suffer it to be done, and connive at it, and not punish for it:

to transgress against our God; his law, his mind, and will:

in marrying strange wives? forbidden by him, Deuteronomy 7:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 27. Shall we then hearken unto you — If God spared not Solomon, who was so much beloved of Him, shall we spare you, who by your conduct are bringing down God's judgments upon Israel?