Nehemiah 13:23
What does Nehemiah 13:23 mean?
A plain-English look at Nehemiah 13:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, andof Moab:
KJV
King James Version · 1611In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, andof Moab:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews <FI>who<Fi> have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab.
Context
v.22And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember unto me, O my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy lovingkindness.
v.23This passage
v.24and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Corinthians 6:14
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
- Ezra 9:1
Now when these things were done, the princes drew near unto me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
- 1 Samuel 5:1
Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod.
- Ezra 10:10
And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.
- Ezra 10:44
All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
- Nehemiah 10:30
and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
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