John Gill's Exposition on Nehemiah 13:23

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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 (<440840>Acts 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, (<071403>Judges 14:3). This place was a mart of the Arabians f88, 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, (<161301>Nehemiah 13:1).

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