g. These mixed marriages involved treachery against the first wife (2:14) When an Israelite put away the wife of his youth, his life-long companion, to marry a foreigner, he dealt treacherously with the wife of his youth. After years of faithfulness to her husband, she, her beauty and youth gone, was rejected and cast aside. h. These mixed marriages defeated God’s purpose (2:15) Although God had ample spirit to create more than one holy nation, yet He created only one holy nation, Israel. He did