Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak
Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women fr
And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their g
When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nati
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possessio
Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her
And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israe
You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to th
Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s
for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellows
As soon as the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all of foreign descent.
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?
Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Ther
And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so t