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because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: however our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread The same reason is given, and what follows in this verse is observed in ( Deuteronomy 23:4Deuteronomy 23:5 ) ; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 23:4) (See Gill on Deuteronomy 23:5).
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On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,
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because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: however our God turned the curse into a blessing.
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It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
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Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,
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had prepared for him a great chamber, where before they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the heave-offerings for the priests.