Nehemiah 13:27-29

GOD’S WORD Translation

²⁷ Should we follow your example, commit such a serious crime against our God, and be unfaithful to him by marrying non-Israelite women?”

²⁸ Even one of Joiada’s sons was a son-in-law of Sanballat from Beth Horon. (Joiada was the son of the chief priest Eliashib.) I chased Joiada’s son away from me.

²⁹ ⌞Nehemiah prayed,⌟ “Remember them, my God, because they have contaminated the priestly office and the promise ^[a] you made to the priests and Levites.”