Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? Context Intermarriage Forbidden
23In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: 24And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. 25And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons, or for yourselves. 26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin. 27Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? 28And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me. 29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites. 30Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business; 31And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
Douay-Rheims Bible
And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to transgress against our God, and marry strange women?
Darby Bible Translation
And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?
King James Bible
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
Young's Literal Translation
And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?'
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