After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have
Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the
Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt
be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods,
Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will
Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the leaders and e
For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—
Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessel
When the officials of Judah heard these things, they went up from the king’s palace to the house of the LORD and sat the
At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating tha
And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swo
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out befor
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellows
The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness o
Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon
No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoni
Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken
Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would
You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites,
the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
When Sanballat and Tobiah, together with the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites, heard that the repair to the walls of Jer