Nehemiah 13:27

Shall wee then hearken vnto you, to doe all this great euill, to transgresse against our God, in marrying strange wiues?
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

"Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?"
- New American Standard Version (1995)

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
- American Standard Version (1901)

Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?
- Basic English Bible

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

Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?
- Webster's Bible

Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?"
- World English Bible

And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?'
- Youngs Literal Bible

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?'
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Wesley's Notes for Nehemiah 13:27

13:25 Cursed - Caused them to be excommunicated and cast out of the society of God's people. This and the following punishments were justly inflicted upon them, because this transgression was contrary both to a plain law of God, and to their own late solemn covenants. Smote - I caused to be beaten with stripes, according to the law, #Deut 25:2|, such whose faults were most aggravated; to whom he added this punishment over and above the former. Plucked off - Or, shaved them. The hair was an ensign of liberty among the eastern nations; and baldness was a disgrace, and token of slavery and sorrow.

13:28 And one, &c. - Said by Josephus to be that Manasses, who by Sanballat's interest procured liberty to build the Samaritan temple in mount Gerizim; to which those priests who had married strange wives, or been otherwise criminal, betook themselves, and with, or after them, others of the people in the same or like circumstances. Chased - From my presence and court, from the city and temple, and from the congregation and church of Israel.