BRAGADAYJAH 1214

BRAGADAYJAH 1214
Law against Intermarriage
Also in those days Nehemiah saw that Jews were married to Ashdod of Ammon and of Moab. And their children spoke half in the speech of Ammon and half in Moab and were unable to speak in the Jewish language. So Nehemiah contended with them, and rebuked them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear that they would not again give their daughters unto the sons of Ashdod, nor accept their daughters for their sons. He reminded them of Solomon who long ago had sinned by doing those very things. That even though God made him king, and favored him, yet he allowed his union with foreign women to lead him astray. And Nehemiah prayed for his people and said, “Remember them O my God because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.” Thus Nehemiah was able to cleanse them from strangers and appointed over them wards of the priests and the Levite.” Thus ends Nehemiah’s account of the return of the remnant of Israel to build the house and walls of Jerusalem.

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