Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? 13:27
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? 13:27
"They ... entered into a curse, and into an oath ... that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons." 10:29-30
Nehemiah rebukes the men for marrying "strange wives." To punish them he "contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair." 13:25-27
