In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
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In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
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In those days also I saw Jews that married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab. Ashdod, or Azotus, as it is called in
Act 8:40
, was one of the five cities of the Philistines; which, though none of the seven nations with whom marriage was forbid, yet it was very unfit and improper to marry with them,
Jdg 14:3
. This place was a mart of the Arabians (h), where they sold their goods, to which the Jews might resort, and thereby be ensnared into such marriages; and which with the Ammonites and Moabites were unlawful,
Neh 13:1
.
(h) Mela de Situ Orbis, l. 1. c. 10.
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