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Nehemiah 13:27 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?” "

Nehemiah 13:27

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25 I contended with them, cursed them, struck certain of them, plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

26 Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.

27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”

28 One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.

29 Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

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Ezra 10:10

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"Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel."

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Ezra 10:14

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2 Chronicles 28:10

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"Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against the LORD your God?"

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"How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”"

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2 Chronicles 28:13

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"and said to them, “You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against the LORD, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”"

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Jeremiah 5:19

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"It will happen when you say, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’"

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Nehemiah 13:1

"On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,"

Nehemiah 13:2

"because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them; however, our God turned the curse into a blessing."

Nehemiah 13:3

"It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel."

Nehemiah 13:4

"Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,"

Nehemiah 13:5

"had prepared for him a great room, where previously they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests."

Nehemiah 13:6

"But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king,"

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