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As for their children, halfspoke in the language of Ashdod, and none of them was able to speak the language of Judah, but the language of his ownpeople.
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So I contended with them and cursed them and strucksome of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nortake of their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
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"Did not Solomonking of Israelsinregardingthesethings? Yet among the manynations there was nokinglike him, and he was loved by his God, and Godmade him kingoverallIsrael; nevertheless the foreignwomen caused even him to sin.