This is the list of the men who had foreign wives: Priests, listed by clans: Clan of Joshua and his brothers, sons of Jehozadak: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

Clan of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah

Clan of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah

Musicians: Eliashib Temple guards: Shallum, Telem, and Uri

Clan of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah

Clan of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai

Clan of Pahath Moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh

(SEE 10:31)

Clan of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel, Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi, Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu

(SEE 10:34)

Clan of Binnui: Shimei, Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah, Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah, Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph

(SEE 10:38)

(SEE 10:38)

All these men had foreign wives. They divorced them and sent them and their children away.

Your sons might marry those foreign women, who would lead them to be unfaithful to me and to worship their pagan gods.

"The LORD your God will bring you into the land that you are going to occupy, and he will drive many nations out of it. As you advance, he will drive out seven nations larger and more powerful than you: the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Do not marry any of them, and do not let your children marry any of them,

At that time I also discovered that many of the Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or some other language and didn't know how to speak our language.

The people of Judah have broken their promise to God and done a horrible thing in Jerusalem and all over the country. They have defiled the Temple which the LORD loves. Men have married women who worship foreign gods.

a people dedicated to me alone, and you will serve me as priests."

"You are my people, so you must not eat the meat of any animal that has been killed by wild animals; instead, give it to the dogs.

Do this because you belong to the LORD your God. From all the peoples on earth he chose you to be his own special people.

You belong to the LORD your God; he has chosen you to be his own people from among all the peoples who live on earth.

Even if one person out of ten remains in the land, he too will be destroyed; he will be like the stump of an oak tree that has been cut down." (The stump represents a new beginning for God's people.)

Didn't God make you one body and spirit with her? What was his purpose in this? It was that you should have children who are truly God's people. So make sure that none of you breaks his promise to his wife.

For the unbelieving husband is made acceptable to God by being united to his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made acceptable to God by being united to her Christian husband. If this were not so, their children would be like pagan children; but as it is, they are acceptable to God.

some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked.

When the people of Israel heard this law read, they excluded all foreigners from the community.

At that time I also discovered that many of the Jewish men had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or some other language and didn't know how to speak our language.

Do not try to work together as equals with unbelievers, for it cannot be done. How can right and wrong be partners? How can light and darkness live together?

This is the list of the men who had foreign wives: Priests, listed by clans: Clan of Joshua and his brothers, sons of Jehozadak: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

Clan of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah

Clan of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah

Musicians: Eliashib Temple guards: Shallum, Telem, and Uri

Clan of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah

Clan of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai

Clan of Pahath Moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh

(SEE 10:31)

Clan of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel, Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi, Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu

(SEE 10:34)

Clan of Binnui: Shimei, Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah, Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah, Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph

(SEE 10:38)

(SEE 10:38)

All these men had foreign wives. They divorced them and sent them and their children away.

The priest Eliashib, who was in charge of the Temple storerooms, had for a long time been on good terms with Tobiah.

I reprimanded the Jewish leaders and told them, "Look at the evil you're doing! You're making the Sabbath unholy.

Joiada was the son of Eliashib the High Priest, but one of Joiada's sons married the daughter of Sanballat, from the town of Beth Horon, so I made Joiada leave Jerusalem.