Nehemiah 13:23
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
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Gill's Exposition
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things?.... By marrying strange wives, by whom he was drawn into idolatry, Kg1 11:3,
yet among many nations was there no king like him; as not for…
We have here one instance more of Nehemiah's pious zeal for the purifying of his countrymen as a peculiar people to God; that was the thing he aimed at in the use of his power, not the enriching of…
Nehemiah's protest against mixed marriages, cf. Neh 9:2; Neh 10:28; Neh 10:30; Ezr 9:1 ff; Ezr 10:1 ff.
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