Nehemiah 13:23-27

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²³In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.^(A) ²⁴Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples but could not speak Hebrew.^[a]^(B) ²⁵I rebuked them, cursed them, beat some of their men, and pulled out their hair.^(C) I forced them to take an oath^(D) before God and said: “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or yourselves!^(E) ²⁶Didn’t King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations. He was loved by his God and God made him king over all Israel, yet foreign women drew him into sin.^(F) ²⁷Why then should we hear about you doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”^(G)