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


In Context

24 and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews language, but according to the language of each people.

25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God,'saying , Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

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

28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

Nehemiah 13:27 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:27Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:27Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?"

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:27And shall we also be disobedient and do all this great evil to transgress against our God, and marry strange women?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:27And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:27Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying strange women?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:27Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:27Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:27And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:27Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?