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

And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and to them there was no respecting to speak Jewish, but according to the language of each people.

And I contended with them, and put a curse on them, and struck some of them, and I plucked their hair. And I made them swear by the name of God, saying, You shall not give your daughter totheir sons, nor take their daughters to yoursons, or for yourselves.

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved by his God; and God made him king over Israel. But women from other lands caused even him to sin.

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

And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. And I chased him from me.

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.