Nehemiah 13:27

27 Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in 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 made them swear by God, [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons, or for yourselves.

26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

27 Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in 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: therefore I chased him from me.

29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.