Nehemiah - 13:27



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

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Explanation and meaning of Nehemiah 13:27.

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Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to transgress against our God, and marry strange women?
And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying strange women?
Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?
And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?'
Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to break faith with our God in marrying foreign women?'
So how could we disobey and do all this great evil, so that we would transgress against our God, and take foreign wives?"

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Shall we then hearken unto you - If God spared not Solomon, who was so much beloved of Him, shall we spare you, who by your conduct are bringing down God's judgments upon Israel?

Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil,.... To suffer it to be done, and connive at it, and not punish for it:
to transgress against our God; his law, his mind, and will:
in marrying strange wives? forbidden by him, Deuteronomy 7:1.

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