Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
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Gill's Exposition
Thus cleansed I them from all strangers,.... Both people and priests from strange wives, obliging them to put them away, or flee their country:
and appointing the wards of the priests and the…
Adam Clarke
Shall we then hearken unto you - If God spared not Solomon, who was so much beloved of Him, shall we spare you, who by your conduct are bringing down God's judgments upon Israel?
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
Shall we then hearken unto you The rendering is disputed.
According to the English Version, the sense is, -are we to listen to your expostulations and entreaties, and permit this evil to go on…