1
Now when these things were
done , the
princes came to me,
saying , The
people of
Israel, and the
priests, and the
Levites, have not
separated themselves from the
people of the
lands, doing according to their
abominations, even of the
Canaanites, the
Hittites, the
Perizzites, the
Jebusites, the
Ammonites, the
Moabites, the
Egyptians, and the
Amorites.
2
For they have
taken of their
daughters for themselves, and for their
sons: so that the
holy seed have
mingled themselves with the
people of those
lands: yea, the
hand of the
princes and
rulers hath been
chief in this
trespass.
3
And when I
heard this
thing, I
rent my
garment and my
mantle, and plucked
off the
hair of my
head and of my
beard, and sat
down astonied .
4
Then were
assembled unto me every one that
trembled at the
words of the
God of
Israel, because of the
transgression of those that had been carried
away; and I
sat astonied until the
evening sacrifice.
5
And at the
evening sacrifice I arose
up from my
heaviness; and having
rent my
garment and my
mantle, I
fell upon my
knees, and spread
out my
hands unto the
LORD my
God,