Israel to Destroy Idolatrous Nations

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land(A) you are entering to possess,(B) and He drives out many nations before you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you— and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,(C) because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

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12 So do not give your daughters to their sons in marriage or take their daughters for your sons.(A) Never seek their peace or prosperity,(B) so that you will be strong, eat the good things of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your sons forever.”

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Nehemiah’s Further Reforms

13 At that time(A) the book of Moses(B) was read publicly to[a] the people.(C) The command was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite(D) should ever enter the assembly of God,(E) because they did not meet the Israelites with food and water. Instead, they hired Balaam against them to curse them,(F) but our God turned the curse into a blessing.(G) When they heard the law, they separated all those of mixed descent(H) from Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 13:1 Lit read in the ears of

23 In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.(A)

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