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JPS Old Testament

Nehemiah 13:23

In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Ashdod;   Divorce;   Moabites;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ashdod;   Moabites;   Nehemiah;   Solomon;   The Topic Concordance - Marriage;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Ammonites, the;   Divorce;   Marriage;   Moabites;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Philistines;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Foreigner;   Malachi;   Samaria, samaritans;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hittites;   Malachi;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ashdod;   Giants;   Malachi;   Nehemiah;   Noah;   Philistia;   Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ashdod;   Malachi;   Nehemiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ammon, Ammonites;   Ashdod;   Marriage;   Nehemiah;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Marriage;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ammon, Ammonites, Children of Ammon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Nehemiah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Philis'tines;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Samaritans;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ashdod;   Genealogy;   Languages of the Old Testament;   Proselyte;   Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ammonites;   Ashdod;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ammon, Ammonites;   Ashdod;   Ezra, Book of;   Gentile;   Intermarriage;   Marriage;   Moab;   Ruth, Book of;   Zechariah, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Hebrew Names Version
In those days also saw I the Yehudim who had married women of Ashdod, of `Ammon, [and] of Mo'av:
King James Version
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
English Standard Version
In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
New Century Version
In those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
New English Translation
Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Amplified Bible
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 married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
World English Bible
In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
Geneva Bible (1587)
In those dayes also I saw Iewes that married wiues of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab.
Legacy Standard Bible
In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Berean Standard Bible
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Contemporary English Version
I discovered that some Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Complete Jewish Bible
Also during this time I saw the Judeans who had married women from Ashdod, ‘Amon and Mo'av;
Darby Translation
In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab.
Easy-to-Read Version
In those days I also noticed that some Jewish men had married women from the countries of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
George Lamsa Translation
In those days I also saw Jews who had married foreign wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
Good News Translation
At that time I also discovered that many of the Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Lexham English Bible
Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Literal Translation
In those days I also saw Jews who had dwelt with women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And at the same tyme sawe I Iewes, that maried wyues of Asdod, 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:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In those dayes also sawe I Iewes that maried wyues of Asdod, of Ammon, and of Moab,
King James Version (1611)
In those dayes also sawe I Iewes that had maried wiues of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
English Revised Version
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also in tho daies Y siy Jewys weddinge wyues, wymmen of Azotus, and wymmen of Amonytis, and wymmen of Moabitis.
Update Bible Version
In those days also I saw the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
Webster's Bible Translation
In those days also I saw Jews [that] had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
New King James Version
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
New Living Translation
About the same time I realized that some of the men of Judah had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
New Life Bible
In those days I saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
New Revised Standard
In those days also I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Moreover, in these days, saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab;
Douay-Rheims Bible
In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.
Revised Standard Version
In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab;
Young's Literal Translation
Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews [who] have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.
THE MESSAGE
Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. Half the children couldn't even speak the language of Judah; all they knew was the language of Ashdod or some other tongue. So I took those men to task, gave them a piece of my mind, even slapped some of them and jerked them by the hair. I made them swear to God: "Don't marry your daughters to their sons; and don't let their daughters marry your sons—and don't you yourselves marry them! Didn't Solomon the king of Israel sin because of women just like these? Even though there was no king quite like him, and God loved him and made him king over all Israel, foreign women were his downfall. Do you call this obedience—engaging in this extensive evil, showing yourselves faithless to God by marrying foreign wives?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.

Contextual Overview

23 In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab; 24 and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. 25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God: 'Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves. 26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless even him did the foreign women cause to sin. 27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?' 28 And 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, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites. 30 Thus cleansed I them from everything foreign, and appointed wards for the priests and for the Levites, every one in his work; 31 and for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first-fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

married: Heb. made to dwell with them, Nehemiah 10:30, Ezra 9:2, Ezra 9:11, Ezra 9:12, Ezra 10:10, Ezra 10:44, 2 Corinthians 6:14

Ashdod: 1 Samuel 5:1

Ammon: Nehemiah 13:1-3

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:38 - children Exodus 34:16 - General Leviticus 21:15 - profane Deuteronomy 7:3 - General Deuteronomy 23:3 - Ammonite Deuteronomy 23:6 - Thou shalt Joshua 11:22 - Ashdod Joshua 15:46 - near Joshua 23:12 - shall make Judges 3:6 - General 1 Kings 11:1 - loved 1 Kings 16:31 - took to wife 2 Chronicles 22:3 - his mother Ezra 9:14 - join in Ezra 10:12 - so must we do Nehemiah 4:7 - Ashdodites Proverbs 28:4 - but Isaiah 2:6 - and they Jeremiah 25:20 - remnant Hosea 5:7 - begotten Hosea 7:8 - he hath Malachi 2:11 - and hath 2 Corinthians 11:29 - and I burn

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In those days also I saw Jews that married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab. Ashdod, or Azotus, as it is called in Acts 8:40, was one of the five cities of the Philistines; which, though none of the seven nations with whom marriage was forbid, yet it was very unfit and improper to marry with them, Judges 14:3. This place was a mart of the Arabians h, where they sold their goods, to which the Jews might resort, and thereby be ensnared into such marriages; and which with the Ammonites and Moabites were unlawful, Nehemiah 13:1.

h Mela de Situ Orbis, l. 1. c. 10.


 
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