And 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.
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Gill's Exposition
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil,.... To suffer it to be done, and connive at it, and not punish for it:
to transgress against our God; his law, his mind, and will:
in…
Barnes' Notes
The speech of Ashdod - The Philistine language, which was akin to that of Egypt. According to the language of each people - The children spoke a mixed dialect - half-Philistine, half-Hebrew.
Adam Clarke
Half in the speech of Ashdod - There were children in the same family by Jewish and Philistine mothers. As the Jewish mother would always speak to her children in Hebrew or Chaldee, so they learnt to…
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…
Cambridge Bible
spake half in the speech of Ashdod LXX. οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτῶν ἥμισυ λαλοῦσιν Ἀζωτιστί. Vulg. -filii eorum ex media parte loquebantur Azotice," half their words were framed in the dialect of Philistia. This…