Nehemiah 13:23–30

²³In those days also I saw the Jews ^vwho had married women ^wof Ashdod, ^xAmmon, and ^xMoab. ²⁴And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people. ^25oAnd I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. ^yAnd I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. ^26zDid not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? ^aAmong the many nations there was no king like him, and he was ^bbeloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin. ²⁷Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and ^cact treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”

²⁸And one of the sons of ^dJehoiada, the son of ^eEliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of ^fSanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me. ^29gRemember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood ^hand the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

³⁰ⁱThus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work;