Nehemiah 13:24 BSB — MannaFest

Nehemiah 13:24

Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.

KJV

And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Half in the speech of Ashdod - There were children in the same family by Jewish and Philistine mothers. As the Jewish mother would always speak to her children in Hebrew or Chaldee, so they learnt to speak these languages; and as the Ashdod mother would always speak to her children in the Ashdod language, so they learnt that tongue. Thus there were, in the same family, children who could not understand each other; half, or one part, speaking one language, and the other part another.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּבְנֵיהֶ֗ם	u.ve.nei.Hem	and children their	H1121 →
חֲצִי֙	cha.Tzi	half	H2677 →
מְדַבֵּ֣ר	me.da.Ber	[were] speaking	H1696 →
אַשְׁדּוֹדִ֔ית	'ash.do.Dit	Ashdodite	H797 →
וְאֵינָ֥ם	ve.'ei.Nam	and not they	H369 →
מַכִּירִ֖ים	ma.ki.Rim	[were] knowing	H5234 →
לְדַבֵּ֣ר	le.da.Ber	to speak	H1696 →
יְהוּדִ֑ית	ye.hu.Dit	[in] Judean	H3066 →
וְכִלְשׁ֖וֹן	ve.khil.Shon	and according to [the] language of	H3956 →
עַ֥ם	'am	people	H5971 →
וָעָֽם׃	va.'Am	and people	H5971 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Zephaniah 3:9
For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.
leads to
- Genesis 11:1
  Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
- Isaiah 19:18
  In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the…
- Psalms 22:27
  All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
- Zechariah 2:11
  “On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me…
- Psalms 86:9–10
  All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.