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Nehemiah 13:2 KJV
Nehemiah · chapter 13 · verse 2
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.Nehemiah 13:2 · King James Version
Nehemiah 13:2 in context
1On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
2Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
3Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
4And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:
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Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- BalaamBilʻâmBilam, a Mesopotamian prophetH1109 →
- turnedhâphakto turn about or overH2015 →
- breadlechemfood , especially bread, or grainH3899 →
- watermayimwaterH4325 →
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It was the honour of Israel, and the greatest preservation of their holiness, that they were a peculiar people, and were so to keep themselves, and not to mingle with the nations, nor suffer any of them to incorporate with them. Now here we have, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9