24And 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.
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For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-31)We have here one instance more of Nehemiah’s pious zeal for the purifying of his countrymen as a peculiar people to God; that was the thing he aimed at in the use of his power, not the enriching of himself. See here, I. How they had corrupted themselves by marrying strange wives. This was complained of in Ezra’s time, and much done towards a reformation, Ezra 9:1-10:44 But, when the unclean spirit…
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