30Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
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And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:
Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, …
So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel. …
Commentary
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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