Bishops(i)
23 In those dayes also sawe I Iewes that maried wyues of Asdod, of Ammon, and of Moab
24 And their children spake halfe in the speach of Asdod, and could not speake in the Iewes language, but according to the language of the one people and of the other people
25 Then I reproued them, and cursed them, and smote certayne men of them, and made them bare: and toke an oth of them by God, Ye shall not geue your daughters vnto their sonnes, neither shall ye take their daughters vnto your sonnes, or for your selues
26 Dyd not Solomon the king of Israel sinne by these thinges? and yet among many heathen was there no king like him, which was deare vnto his God, & God made hym king ouer all Israel: and yet neuerthelesse outlandishe women caused him to sinne
27 Shall we then obey vnto you to do al this great euyll, and to transgresse against our God, and marie straunge wyues
28 And one of the children of Iehoiada the sonne of Eliasib the hye priest, was the sonne in law of Sanaballat the Horonite: but I chased him from me
29 O my God, thinke thou vpon them that defile the presthod, and the couenaunt of the presthod and of the Leuites