Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

King James Version

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

Holman Bible

Why then should we hear about you doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

International Standard Version

Should we listen to you and do all of this terrible evil by transgressing against our God to marry foreign wives?"

A Conservative Version

Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

American Standard Version

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

Amplified

Do we then hear about you that you have done all this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign (pagan) women?”

Bible in Basic English

Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?

Darby Translation

And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?

Julia Smith Translation

And to you shall we hear to do all this great evil to transgress against our God to cause strange women to dwell.

King James 2000

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Should we listen to you all and do this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?"

Modern King James verseion

Shall we then listen to you, to do all this great evil, to sin against our God in living with foreign women?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And shall we then obey unto you, to do all this great evil, and to transgress against our God, and marry strange wives?"

NET Bible

Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?"

New Heart English Bible

Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"

The Emphasized Bible

Unto you, then, shall we hearken, to do all this great wickedness, to act unfaithfully with our God, - by marrying foreign wives?

Webster

Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?

World English Bible

Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"

Youngs Literal Translation

And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

מעל 
Ma`al 
Usage: 36

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

References

Context Readings

Mixed Marriages Are Condemned

26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin regarding these things? Yet among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless the foreign women caused even him to sin. 27 Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?” 28 Even one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, so I drove him away from me.


Cross References

Ezra 10:2

Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

1 Samuel 30:24

And who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike.”

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