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In those dayes also sawe I Iewes that had maried wiues of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

And their children spake halfe in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speake in the Iewes language, but according to the language of ech people.

And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certeine of them, and pluckt off their haire, and made them sweare by God, saying, Yee shall not giue your daughters vnto their sonnes, nor take their daughters vnto your sonnes, or for your selues.

Did not Solomon king of Israel sinne by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloued of his God, and God made him king ouer all Israel: neuerthelesse, euen him did outlandish women cause to sinne.

Shall wee then hearken vnto you, to doe all this great euill, to transgresse against our God, in marrying strange wiues?

And one of the sonnes of Ioiada, the sonne of Eliashib the high Priest, was sonne in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therfore I chased him from me.

Remember them, O my God, because they haue defiled the Priesthood, and the couenant of the Priesthood, and of the Leuites.