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

And I shall contend with the prefects, and say, Wherefore was the house of God forsaken? And I shall gather them together, and cause them to stand upon their standing.

They forsaking the law will praise the unjust: and they watching the law, shall contend with them.

Cursed

Also I shook out my arm, and said, Thus God will shake out every man who will not raise up this word from his house and from his labor; so shall he be shaken out and emptied. And all the convocation will say, Amen, and praise Jehovah. And the people did according to this word.

And the Levites answered and said to every man of Israel in a high voice,

In his eyes a reprobate being despised; and those fearing Jehovah, he will honor. Swearing to the friend, and he will not change.

And a certain of the skilled in the law having answered, said, Teacher, speaking these things, and thou injurest us.

Smote

And it was if the unjust be the son of smiting and the judge caused him to fall down and beat him before his face in proportion to his fault, by a number.

And all not to be doing the laws of thy God, and the laws of the king, judgment to be done speedily upon him, if whether to death or to rooting him out, or to impose fines and for bonds.

Plucked

My back I gave to those smiting, and my cheeks to those tearing out the hair: and my face I hid not from shame and spittle.

Made them

Holding upon their brethren, their mighty ones, and coming into a curse, and into an oath, to go in the law of God which was given by the hand of Moses the servant of God, and to watch and to do all the command of Jehovah our Lord, and his judgments and his ordinances;

Jehovah thy God shalt thou fear, and him shalt thou serve, and in his name shalt thou swear.

And they will come into a covenant to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

And Ezra will rise and cause the chiefs to swear, the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to do according to this word. And they will swear.

Ye shall not

And thou didst take from his daughters to thy sons, and they committed fornication after their gods, and they made thy sons commit fornication after their gods.

Thou shall not marry with them; thy daughters thou shalt not give to his son, and his daughter thou shalt not take to thy son.

General references

And thou didst take from his daughters to thy sons, and they committed fornication after their gods, and they made thy sons commit fornication after their gods.

Thou shall not marry with them; thy daughters thou shalt not give to his son, and his daughter thou shalt not take to thy son.

And they will take their daughters to them for wives, and their daughters they will give to their sons, and they will serve their gods.

And it will kindle to me greatly as I heard their cry and these words.