Parallel Verses
Amplified
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
New American Standard Bible
In those days I also saw that the Jews had
King James Version
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Holman Bible
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
International Standard Version
At that time I also noticed that Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
A Conservative Version
In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab.
American Standard Version
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Bible in Basic English
And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:
Darby Translation
In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab.
Julia Smith Translation
Also in those days I saw Jews who caused to dwell women, Ashdodites, Ammonites, Moabites:
King James 2000
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Modern King James verseion
In those days I also saw Jews who lived with women from Ashdod, Ammon, and from Moab.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And at the same time saw I Jews, that married wives of Ashdod, Ammon, and of Moab;
NET Bible
Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
New Heart English Bible
In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
The Emphasized Bible
Moreover, in these days, saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab;
Webster
In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
World English Bible
In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
Youngs Literal Translation
Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews who have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Persons in authority should denounce
Ammonites » Jews intermarry with
the Ammonites » The jews reprobated for intermarrying with
Divorce » Forced on those who had idolatrous wives
Marriage » The reward for marrying idolaters
Marriage » The jews » Often contracted with foreigners
Moabites » Are a snare to the israelites
Moabites » israelites » Sometimes intermarried with
Nehemiah » Earnestness in reform
Topics
Interlinear
Yowm
Ra'ah
References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Nehemiah 13:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mixed Marriages Are Condemned
22 And I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and come and guard the gates to keep the Sabbath day holy. O my God, remember me concerning this also and have compassion on me according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness. 23 In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 As for their children, half spoke in the language of Ashdod, and none of them knew how to speak [Hebrew] the language of Judah, but only the language of his own people.
Phrases
Cross References
Nehemiah 10:30
and that we will not give our daughters [as wives] to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.
Ezra 9:1-2
When these things were completed, the officials came to me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, but have committed the repulsive acts of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
Ezra 10:10
Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful [to God] and have married foreign (pagan) women, adding to the guilt of Israel.
Nehemiah 13:1
On that day they read aloud from the book of Moses so that the people could hear [its words], and in it was found written that
1 Samuel 5:1
Then the Philistines took the ark of God, and they brought it from Ebenezer to
Ezra 9:11-12
which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are entering to possess is a defiled land with the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their repulsive acts which have filled it from one end to the other along with their impurity.
Ezra 10:44
All these had married foreign women, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
Nehemiah 4:7
2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally bound together with unbelievers [do not make mismatched alliances with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?