Nehemiah 13:25

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Summary

And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.

I contended

Nehemiah 13:11

Proverbs 28:4

Cursed

Smote

Deuteronomy 25:2

Ezra 7:26

Plucked

Isaiah 50:6

Made them

Ye shall not

Exodus 34:16

Deuteronomy 7:3

General references

Bible References

I contended

Then I contended with the rulers and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their place.

Those that forsake the law praise the wicked, but such as keep the law contend with them.

Cursed

Also I shook my lap and said, Thus will God shake out each man from his house and from his labour, that does not perform this promise, even thus shall he be shaken out and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

And the Levites shall speak and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

In whose eyes the vile person is not esteemed; but he honours those that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt and does not change.

Then one of the lawyers answered and said unto him, Master, saying these things, thou dost reproach us also.

Smote

And it shall be if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten in his presence, according to his fault, by a certain number.

And whoever will not do the law of thy God and the law of the king, let them be judged speedily, whether it be unto death or to banishment or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment.

Plucked

I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.

Made them

Strengthened with their brethren, their nobles, they came forward in an oath with a curse that they would walk in God's law, which was given by the hand of Moses, the slave of God, and observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God and serve him and shalt swear by his name.

And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

Then Ezra arose and made the princes of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, swear that they should do according to this word. And they swore.

Ye shall not

or take of their daughters unto thy sons, and when their daughters go fornicating after their gods they shall make thy sons also fornicate after their gods.

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

General references

or take of their daughters unto thy sons, and when their daughters go fornicating after their gods they shall make thy sons also fornicate after their gods.

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

they took their daughters to be their wives and gave their daughters to their sons and served their gods.

And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.