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because they had not met the children of Israel with bread and with water, and had hired Balaam against them, to curse them; but our God turned the curse into 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 there was found written in it that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
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because they had not met the children of Israel with bread and with water, and had hired Balaam against them, to curse them; but our God turned the curse into blessing.
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And it came to pass, when they heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
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And before this, Eliashib the priest, who had the oversight of the chambers of the house of our God, a kinsman of Tobijah,
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had prepared for him a great chamber, where formerly they laid the oblations, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine and the oil, which was commanded for the Levites and the singers and the doorkeepers, and the heave-offerings of the priests.