12Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
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Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: …
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-15)What the meditations of Ezra’s heart were, while for some hours he sat down astonished, we may guess by the words of his mouth when at length he spoke with his tongue ; and a most pathetic address he here makes to Heaven upon this occasion. Observe, I. The time when he made this address— at the evening sacrifice , Ezra 9:5. Then (it is likely) devout people used to come into the courts of the temp…
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