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23 And in those days I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab.
24 And their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and did not know how to speak in the Jewish language.
25 And I strove with them and cursed them; and I struck some of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons, and you shall not take of their daughters to your sons.
26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin thus? Yet there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of God, and God made him king over all Israel; yet strange women turned him aside.
27 So we will not hearken to you to do all this evil, to break covenant with our God, to marry strange wives.
28 And Elishub the high priest, one of the sons of Joiada, son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, I chased away from me.