Nehemiah 13:27

27 And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?

Nehemiah 13:27 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 13:27

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil
To suffer it to be done, and connive at it, and not punish for it:

to transgress against our God;
his law, his mind, and will:

in marrying strange wives?
forbidden by him, ( Deuteronomy 7:1 Deuteronomy 7:3 ) ( 1 Kings 11:1 1 Kings 11:2 ) .

Nehemiah 13:27 In-Context

25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them and plucked off their hair, and adjured them by God [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.

27 And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?

28 And [one] of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; and I chased him from me.

29 Remember them, my God, for they are polluters of the priesthood, and of the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites!