Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
In those days I also saw Jews who lived with women from Ashdod, Ammon, and from Moab.
New American Standard Bible
In those days I also saw that the Jews had
King James Version
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Holman Bible
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
International Standard Version
At that time I also noticed that Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
A Conservative Version
In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of 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:
Amplified
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Bible in Basic English
And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:
Darby Translation
In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab.
Julia Smith Translation
Also in those days I saw Jews who caused to dwell women, Ashdodites, Ammonites, Moabites:
King James 2000
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And at the same time saw I Jews, that married wives of Ashdod, Ammon, and of Moab;
NET Bible
Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
New Heart English Bible
In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
The Emphasized Bible
Moreover, in these days, saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab;
Webster
In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
World English Bible
In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
Youngs Literal Translation
Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews who have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Persons in authority should denounce
Ammonites » Jews intermarry with
the Ammonites » The jews reprobated for intermarrying with
Divorce » Forced on those who had idolatrous wives
Marriage » The reward for marrying idolaters
Marriage » The jews » Often contracted with foreigners
Moabites » Are a snare to the israelites
Moabites » israelites » Sometimes intermarried with
Nehemiah » Earnestness in reform
Topics
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Nehemiah 13:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mixed Marriages Are Condemned
22 And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy. 23 In those days I also saw Jews who lived with women from Ashdod, Ammon, and from Moab. 24 And their sons spoke half Ashdod's speech, and there was no caring to speak Jewish, but according to the language of each people.
Phrases
Cross References
Nehemiah 10:30
And we swore that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land nor take their daughters for our sons.
Ezra 9:1-2
And at the end of these things, the rulers came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands. But they are doing according to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra 10:10
And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, You have sinned, and have taken strange women to increase the sin of Israel.
Nehemiah 13:1
On that day they read in the book of Moses in the ears of the people. And in it was found written that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God forever,
1 Samuel 5:1
And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
Ezra 9:11-12
which You commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from one end to the other with their uncleanness.
Ezra 10:44
All these had taken strange women. And many of them had women by whom they had sons.
Nehemiah 4:7
And it happened, when Sanballat and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem had gone up, and that the breaks were being filled, they were very angry.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what partnership does light have with darkness?