Ezra 9:2
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Nehemiah 13:23-24
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23 In those days I also saw Jews who (A)had married women of (B)Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of one or the other people.
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Ezra 10:18-44
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Pagan Wives Put Away
18 And among the sons of the priests who had taken pagan wives the following were found of the sons of (A)Jeshua the son of [a]Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. 19 And they (B)gave their promise that they would put away their wives; and being (C)guilty, they presented a ram of the flock as their (D)trespass offering.
20 Also of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah; 21 of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah; 22 of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
23 Also of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (the same is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
24 Also of the singers: Eliashib; and of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.
25 And others of Israel: of the (E)sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Jeziah, Malchiah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah; 26 of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Eliah; 27 of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza; 28 of the (F)sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai; 29 of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and [b]Ramoth; 30 of the (G)sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh; 31 of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, 32 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah; 33 of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei; 34 of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel, 35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, [c]Cheluh, 36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, 37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, [d]Jaasai, 38 Bani, Binnui, Shimei, 39 Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah, 40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, 41 Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah, 42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph; 43 of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, [e]Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah.
44 All these had taken pagan wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
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- Ezra 10:18 Jehozadak, 1 Chr. 6:14
- Ezra 10:29 Or Jeremoth
- Ezra 10:35 Or Cheluhi or Cheluhu
- Ezra 10:37 Or Jaasu
- Ezra 10:43 Or Jaddu
Deuteronomy 7:6
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6 “For you are a [a]holy people to the Lord your God; (A)the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
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Exodus 34:16
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16 and you take of (A)his daughters for your sons, and his daughters (B)play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.
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Ezra 10:2
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2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, spoke up and said to Ezra, “We have (A)trespassed[a] against our God, and have taken pagan wives from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope in Israel in spite of this.
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- Ezra 10:2 been unfaithful to
Deuteronomy 7:1-4
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A Chosen People(A)
7 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to (B)possess, and has cast out many (C)nations before you, (D)the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, 2 and when the Lord your God delivers (E)them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. (F)You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. 3 (G)Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. 4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; (H)so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
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1 Corinthians 7:14
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14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise (A)your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
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Malachi 2:15
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15 But (A)did He not make them one,
Having a remnant of the Spirit?
And why one?
He seeks (B)godly offspring.
Therefore take heed to your spirit,
And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.
Malachi 2:11
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11 Judah has dealt treacherously,
And an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem,
For Judah has (A)profaned
The Lord’s holy institution which He loves:
He has married the daughter of a foreign god.
Deuteronomy 14:2
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2 (A)For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Exodus 22:31
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31 “And you shall be (A)holy men to Me: (B)you shall not eat meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.
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Exodus 19:6
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6 And you shall be to Me a (A)kingdom of priests and a (B)holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
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2 Corinthians 6:14
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14 (A)Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For (B)what [a]fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what [b]communion has light with darkness?
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- 2 Corinthians 6:14 in common
- 2 Corinthians 6:14 fellowship
Nehemiah 13:3-4
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3 So it was, when they had heard the Law, (A)that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.
The Reforms of Nehemiah
4 Now before this, (B)Eliashib the priest, having authority over the storerooms of the house of our God, was allied with (C)Tobiah.
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Genesis 6:2
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2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they (A)took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
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Isaiah 6:13
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13 But yet a tenth will be in it,
And will return and be for consuming,
As a terebinth tree or as an oak,
Whose stump remains when it is cut down.
So (A)the holy seed shall be its stump.”
Nehemiah 13:28
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28 And one of the sons (A)of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of (B)Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I drove him from me.
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Nehemiah 13:17
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17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, by which you profane the Sabbath day?
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