Nehemiah 13:23
New International Version
Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.

New Living Translation
About the same time I realized that some of the men of Judah had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

English Standard Version
In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Berean Standard Bible
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

King James Bible
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

New King James Version
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

New American Standard Bible
In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

NASB 1995
In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.

NASB 1977
In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Legacy Standard Bible
In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Amplified Bible
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Christian Standard Bible
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

American Standard Version
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Also in those days I saw Judeans who had married foreign women, Ashdodite women, also Ammonite women and Moabite women.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

Contemporary English Version
I discovered that some Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In those days also I saw Jews that married wives, women of Azotus, and of Ammon, and of Moab.

English Revised Version
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
In those days I saw some Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Good News Translation
At that time I also discovered that many of the Jewish men 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.

JPS Tanakh 1917
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

Literal Standard Version
Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews [who] have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.

Majority Standard Bible
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

New American Bible
Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, or Moab.

NET Bible
Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

New Revised Standard Version
In those days also I saw Jews who had married women of 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:

Webster's Bible Translation
In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

World English Bible
In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

Young's Literal Translation
Also, in those days, I have seen the Jews who have settled women of Ashdod, of Ammon, of Moab.

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Context
Intermarriage Forbidden
23In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.…

Cross References
Exodus 34:11
Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Deuteronomy 7:1
When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations--the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you--

1 Kings 11:1
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh--women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

Ezra 9:1
After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, "The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

Ezra 9:2
Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!"

Nehemiah 4:7
When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they were furious,

Nehemiah 10:30
We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.


Treasury of Scripture

In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

married.

Nehemiah 10:30
And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

Ezra 9:2,11,12
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass…

Ezra 10:10,44
And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel…

Ashdod.

1 Samuel 5:1
And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.

Ammon.

Nehemiah 13:1-3
On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever; …

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Nehemiah 13
1. Upon the reading of the law, separation is made from the mixed multitude.
4. Nehemiah, at his return, causes the chambers to be cleansed.
10. He reforms the offices in the house of God;
15. the violation of the Sabbath;
23. and the marriages with the strange wives.














(23-29) The mixed marriages again.

(23) Saw I Jews.--The punishment shows that these were exceptional cases; but the transgression was of the most flagrant kind (see Nehemiah 13:1).

Verse 23. - In those days. i.e. "About this same time." Compare ver. 15. Saw I Jews. Rather, "looked I after the Jews." There is a reference to the first three verses of the present chapter, which had introduced the subject of the mixed marriages. Nehemiah wishes to put on record the part which he had taken in the matter, and begins by observing that it had not escaped him - he had had his eye on the transgressors, and had noted their misconduct, and the evils whereto it led. Wives of Ashdod. Philistine wives, of a race always hostile to Israel, and natives of a city which had recently taken part with Nehemiah's bitter enemies (Nehemiah 4:7). Of Ammon and of Moab. Compare Ezra 9:1, and Nehemiah 13:1.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
In those
הָהֵ֗ם (hā·hêm)
Article | Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1992: They

days
בַּיָּמִ֣ים (bay·yā·mîm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day

I also
גַּ֣ם ׀ (gam)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

saw
רָאִ֤יתִי (rā·’î·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7200: To see

Jews
הַיְּהוּדִים֙ (hay·yə·hū·ḏîm)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 3064: Jews -- Jewish

who had married
הֹשִׁ֗יבוּ (hō·šî·ḇū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

women
נָשִׁים֙ (nā·šîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

from Ashdod,
אַשְׁדֳּדִיּ֔וֹת‪‬ (’aš·do·ḏî·yō·wṯ)
Noun - proper - feminine plural
Strong's 796: Ashdodites -- an inhabitant of Ashdod

Ammon,
עַמֳּנִיּ֖וֹת‪‬ (‘am·mo·nî·yō·wṯ)
Noun - proper - feminine plural
Strong's 5984: Ammonite -- descendants of Ammon

and Moab.
מוֹאֲבִיּֽוֹת׃ (mō·w·’ă·ḇî·yō·wṯ)
Noun - proper - feminine plural
Strong's 4125: Moabite -- descendant of Moab


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