Nehemiah 13:23
in Nehemiah 13In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
KJV
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
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This verse in Nehemiah 13
Commentary
4 notes on this verseIn those days also I saw Jews that married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab. Ashdod, or Azotus, as it is called in Act 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, Jdg 14:
This site's exposition
married wives of Ashdod
on Nehemiah 13:23-24
The last reform returns to the crisis Ezra had already fought once: Jews who had married wives of Ashdod, Ammon and Moab, the same nations named in the chapter's opening reading. The children of these marriages could no longer speak the language of Judah, only the speech of Ashdod or whichever mother raised them, a household split in two tongues under one roof. Clarke pictures brothers in the same family unable to understand each other, half raised in Hebrew and half in a foreign speech. Gill notes Ashdod itself was not one of the seven nations under the old conquest ban, yet intermarriage with it still corrupted the people's language and worship alike.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Judah has dealt treacherously, and broken covenant with God, the covenant made in Ezra's time with reference to this very thing; he has profaned the holiness of the Lord by marrying the daughter (that is, the worshipper) of a strange god.
It was the honour of Israel, and the greatest preservation of their holiness, that they were a peculiar people, and were so to keep themselves, and not to mingle with the nations, nor suffer any of them to incorporate with them.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| גַּ֣ם׀ | gam | also | H1571 → | 769 times |
| בַּיָּמִ֣ים | baiyamim | in the days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הָהֵ֗ם | hahem | <the> those | H1992 → | 553 times |
| רָאִ֤יתִי | raiti | I saw | H7200 → | 1300 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַיְּהוּדִים֙ | haiyehudim | the Jews | H3064 → | 75 times |
| הֹשִׁ֗יבוּ | hoshivu | [who] they had married | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| נָשִׁים֙ | nashim | women | H802 → | 781 times |
| אַשְׁדֳּדִיּ֔וֹת | ʾashdodiyot | Ashdodite | H796 → | |
| עַמֳּנִיּ֖וֹת | amoniyot | Ammonite | H5984 → | 21 times |
| מוֹאֲבִיּֽוֹת׃ | moaviyot | Moabite | H4125 → |
גַּ֣ם׀also
gamH1571 →769 times
בַּיָּמִ֣יםin the days
baiyamimH3117 →2304 times
הָהֵ֗ם<the> those
hahemH1992 →553 times
רָאִ֤יתִיI saw
raitiH7200 →1300 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַיְּהוּדִים֙the Jews
haiyehudimH3064 →75 times
הֹשִׁ֗יבוּ[who] they had married
hoshivuH3427 →1079 times
נָשִׁים֙women
nashimH802 →781 times
אַשְׁדֳּדִיּ֔וֹתAshdodite
ʾashdodiyotH796 →
עַמֳּנִיּ֖וֹתAmmonite
amoniyotH5984 →21 times
מוֹאֲבִיּֽוֹת׃Moabite
moaviyotH4125 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Corinthians 6:14Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
it leads to
- 1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:21
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.
- James 4:4
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
- Ephesians 5:6–14
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
- Leviticus 19:19
You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of…
- 1 Corinthians 15:33
Through
Nehemiah 13:1At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly…
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 23:3–5
No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
- Deuteronomy 23:3–5
Through
Nehemiah 10:30We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 7:3
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
- Exodus 34:16
And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.
- Deuteronomy 7:3
About Nehemiah
Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.